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Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than… — Jules Verne
It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top… — Mary Cholmondeley
No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I — Stanley Hauerwas
The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as… — Max Weber
The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the… — Charles Spurgeon
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the… — Nikola Tesla
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the… — Kenny Smith
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into… — Kenny Smith
Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad libitum and ad… — Richard Askey
I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition. — Robert Kagan
My work speaks of the finite and the infinite, of the macroscopic and the microscopic, the internal and external, by the masculine and feminine powers,… — Ernesto Neto
Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations. — Chuck Hagel
In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so… — James Monroe
There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes… — John Ruskin
All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only… — Fred Rodell
No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever… — Albert Claude
In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn the… — Jules Dervaes
Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual… — Germaine Greer
Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for. — Ken Bruen
However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and… — Dick Thornburgh

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