Formidable Quotes

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A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but it is less… — Mancur Olson
I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them. — Anne Desclos
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even… — Robert M. Pirsig
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering. I… — Thomas Jefferson
Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along… — Owen Hart
The greatest threat to freedom, as well as the most formidable enemy of it, is a supported cause against it. — Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankinds focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes:… — Vanna Bonta
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents… — Henri Weenink
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive… — Avro Manhattan
Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all… — Gilbert Sorrentino
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law… — Henry James Sumner Maine
Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide openâ€¦ — Serge Daney
In short, the foundation of the Kingdom of God is based upon harmony and love, oneness, relationship and union, not upon differences, especially between husband… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex;… — Esther Perel
The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to… — Wernher von Braun
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the… — Thomas Jefferson
The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting… — Winston Churchill
Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable… — Chuck Baldwin

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