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Our Power Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least,…
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than…
- Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can… — George W. Bush
- When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our… — Julia Margaret Cameron
- But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power. — Joshua Chamberlain
- We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by… — Neville Chamberlain
- We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership. — Christiane Amanpour
- Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What's real has love at its… — Fred Alan Wolf
- We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain… — Deborah Prothrow-Stith
- It's a great feeling, its something that I've dreamt about since I was little, and it's finally come true. It couldn't be… — Unknown Author
- The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers… — Leo Buscaglia
- We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live… — Aristotle