Powers Quotes
1705 quotes by 1103 authors
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Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to…
— Surya Das
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The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that…
— Walter Lippmann
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence…
— Kenny Smith
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Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and…
— Richard Lamm
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In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously declared on September…
— Barack Obama
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I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.
— David Klass
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Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading…
— Ed Crane
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It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements…
— Arthur Goldberg
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Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and…
— Richard Mitchell
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The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy, for their bound…
— Francis Howgill
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For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.
— Rene Descartes
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These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet…
— Janet Morris
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When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.
— Charles L. Allen
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We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent…
— Thucydides
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Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of…
— Ronald Reagan
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The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object,…
— Richard Sibbes
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Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and…
— Christina Rossetti
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