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And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances]; matter assumes new… — Humphry Davy
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! — Bryan Procter
From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion… — Thomas Jefferson
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. — Swami Vivekananda
Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, "When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of… — Swami Vivekananda
It is clear that while science provides insights into the complexity of the world around us, those insights...present a fractured mosaic rather than a seamless… — David Suzuki
There is only one problem: You do not trust your powers. There is no difference between you and God. Count your blessings. Be proud of… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I… — Wilford Woodruff
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with… — Bob Woodward
Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his… — Samuel Johnson
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn… — Fidel Castro
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the… — Cyril Connolly
We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished:… — Nikos Kazantzakis
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being.… — Thomas Berry
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times… — Humphry Davy
Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have… — Julian Sanchez
Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these… — George Henry Lewes

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