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Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that… — Humphry Davy
The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges… — Humphry Davy
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits… — George Saintsbury
He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by two… — Unknown Author
Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind. — Horace
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested. — Winston Churchill
It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for… — Mahatma Gandhi
Data really powers everything that we do. — Jeff Weiner
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay… — Gore Vidal
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form — Laurence J. Peter
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really… — Richard Dawkins
We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real… — Uri Geller
I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American… — David Rockefeller
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. — Henry George
On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this… — Adolf Hitler
Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good… — Augustin Thierry
The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be… — Thomas Jefferson
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or… — Thomas Sowell

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