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As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural… — Nicolas Cage
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers… — Thomas Carlyle
Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I… — Nicolas Cage
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. — Joseph Campbell
I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant… — Amy Chua
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like… — Amy Chua
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things… — Carl Jung
When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit, praying therewith for… — Watchman Nee
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still. — Adam Sedgwick
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of… — Louis Agassiz
To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in… — Virginia Woolf
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still… — David Hume
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to… — Herbert Spencer
Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The universe is founded in consciousness and guided by it. The final reality is Universal Consciousness. The Supreme Consciousness is Omnipresent. Its evolutionary powers pervade… — Shriram Sharma
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of… — David Ramsey
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time… — Errol Barrow
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that… — Johann Gottfried Herder
We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with… — August Weismann

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