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Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power or ship's fire, when it… — Colin Powell
The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see might wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the… — Hudson Taylor
The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very… — John J. Pershing
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. — Aldous Huxley
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all… — George Eliot
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. — Stan Barstow
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The… — Daniel Goleman
By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our… — Ray Kurzweil
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom… — Richard Baker
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we… — Sogyal Rinpoche
It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this… — Jack Kornfield
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of… — Pema Chodron
I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some… — Thomas Merton
What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full… — Sam Manekshaw
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous… — Edmund Burke
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now. — Denis Waitley
The trouble with military rule is that every colonel or general is soon full of ambition. The navy takes over today and the army tomorrow. — Yakubu Gowon
What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens.… — Ruth Pitter
What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven… — Henry Ward Beecher

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