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- Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half… — Virginia Woolf
- To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our… — Roger Angell
- I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not… — Olivia Wilde
- Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and… — Joseph Wood Krutch
- Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs,… — Humphry Davy
- Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form — Laurence J. Peter
- Our human responsibility for animal rights, plant rights, and the rights of the earth to its health and wholeness is self-evident. Whatever… — Densey Clyne
- Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. — J. G. Holland
- I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a… — Thomas Jefferson