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All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination… — Kenny Smith
This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers… — Swami Vivekananda
Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget… — William Wordsworth
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love. — Brooke Westcott
"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical… — David Starr Jordan
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers… — Annie Besant
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the… — Celia Thaxter
Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women. — Janet E. Smith
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers… — Pope John Paul II
We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But… — Nhat Hanh
Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a… — Epictetus
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist… — Konrad Lorenz
Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our… — John Ruskin
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of… — Curt Sachs
Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of… — Jamake Highwater
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time. — Samuel Smiles
Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player. — Lev Polugaevsky
Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers. — Lincoln Peirce
I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial… — Sepp Blatter
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers,… — Adam Weishaupt

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