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Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy. — Bill Gates
I suppose I am the most powerful man in the world, but great power doesn't mean much except great limitations — Calvin Coolidge
The word Witch carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word Witch… — Starhawk
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political,… — Hannah Arendt
There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies.… — Henry Miller
We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You cant open… — Mary Manin Morrissey
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it… — Unknown Author
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute. — Anthony Storr
Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen. — Marcia Wieder
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that… — Mary Manin Morrissey
Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life — Unknown Author
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy,the tallest guy in… — Chris Rock
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality… — John W. Gardner
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . .… — William Bernbach
Action is eloquence. — William Shakespeare
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a… — Jean Giraudoux
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. — Albert Bandura
Why does insanity always twist the great answers? Because only tormented persons want truth. Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and success… — Robinson Jeffers
I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music is a very… — Christine Anderson
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting — Edmund Burke
Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is… — Mohammed Aldouri
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily… — Anacharsis
There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in… — Tucker Carlson
What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have… — John Carpenter
I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably. — Marianne Faithfull

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