Exerts Quotes

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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. — Henry Ward Beecher
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. — Rita Mae Brown
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility — David Buss
The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts… — David Emerald Womeldorff
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force. — Arthur Eddington
There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call… — Jean Baker Miller
In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems. — Hugo Theorell
The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon… — Ludwik Fleck
The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also… — Patrick Geddes
Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a… — Abraham Zaleznik
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment… — Samuel Johnson
He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature — Mencius
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet;… — Marsilio Ficino
Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes… — Oswald Chambers
Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by… — Adolf Hitler

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