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Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what… — William James
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger… — John Stuart Mill
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and… — Karl Marx
Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers. — Homer
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while… — Giorgio Vasari
Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer. — Celia Thaxter
For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend… — Niccolo Machiavelli
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive… — Saul Bellow
Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much… — Dr. John
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular… — Alain Badiou
Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless. — Larry Niven
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on… — Joseph Alleine
All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned and realized from… — Francesco Cossiga
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to… — Raymond Queneau
Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible â€“ and I make use of painting to… — Rene Magritte
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them.… — Harry S. Truman
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry… — Samuel Johnson
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth,… — John Fowles
One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their… — John Kenneth Galbraith
In opposition... to all the suggestions of the devil, the sole, simple, and sufficient answer is the word of God. This puts to flight all… — Charles Hodge

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