"I think that submissiveness can [be] and is……" — Anne Desclos

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• The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even… — Maya Angelou
• Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as… — Francesca Annis
• A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of… — Vanna Bonta
• Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient. — Edward McKendree Bounds
• I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must… — Plutarch
• The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness… — P.J. O'Rourke
• The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable… — Thomas Jefferson
• Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. — Ambrose Bierce
• ...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,… — Julian Huxley
• This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform… — Thomas Jefferson

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