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The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of… — Anna Garlin Spencer
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. — Edward Abbey
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier… — Edward Abbey
Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies. — Friedrich August von Hayek
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on… — Mercy Otis Warren
We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,… — Thomas Jefferson
From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation. — Thomas Jefferson
Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all… — Thomas Jefferson
Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically… — Thomas Jefferson
I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would… — Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a… — George Washington
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves… — George Washington
There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it… — Immanuel Kant
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are… — James Madison
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more… — James Madison
The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation… — James Madison
My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it… — Carl Jung

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