Our Powers Quotes
53 quotes by 48 authors
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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
— William Wordsworth
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more…
— Jane Austen
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Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical…
— Daniel Dennett
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How long till our powers are back? (Kat) A few hours according to last time. (Sin) Sweet, and we have how long till the bitches…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice,…
— John Cheever
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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and…
— Marcel Proust
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We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
— Jason Silva
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To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our…
— George Ripley
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My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the…
— Marilynne Robinson
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So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
— Unknown Author
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The vote gives us the power to hire or fire governments. By not voting you diminish and weaken all of us. You reduce and ridicule…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Our Powers Quotes
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