Powers Quotes
1705 quotes by 1103 authors
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
— Napoleon Hill
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I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance…
— Jean Houston
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The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name…
— Charles Hodge
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If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging…
— Edward Hopper
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In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our…
— Alija Izetbegovic
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward…
— Jesse Jackson
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between…
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
— Samuel Johnson
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from…
— Maynard James Keenan
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It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a…
— Helen Keller
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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great…
— John F. Kennedy
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All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
— Jack Kevorkian
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas…
— John Maynard Keynes
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The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative…
— Thomas Kuhn
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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them…
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which…
— Maimonides
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Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers…
— Ray Manzarek
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Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if…
— Orison Swett Marden
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