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Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open… — James Q. Wilson
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for… — James Q. Wilson
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in… — James Q. Wilson
I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land,… — Alcee Hastings
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. — Charles Alexander Eastman
The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and… — William McKinley
In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but… — Jacobus Arminius
Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead. — Graham Joyce
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers. — Che Guevara
To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most. — Eudora Welty
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not… — Edwin Percy Whipple
There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed… — Sri Aurobindo
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all… — Rudolf Rocker
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that… — James Hutton
To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom. — Maria Montessori
Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways,… — Ravi Zacharias
If we can only live once, then let it be a daring adventure that draws on all our powers Let our grandchildren delight to find… — Julian Assange
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every… — H. L. Mencken
It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence,… — Rinus Michels

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