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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men… — Alfred Adler
The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is… — Francis Frangipane
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until… — Evelyn Underhill
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to… — John Ruskin
Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. — Denis Waitley
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. — Gerrit Smith
Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, man consumed with earnestness of purpose,… — B. C. Forbes
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Women do not know all their powers of flirtation. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most… — John Quincy Adams
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as… — James Anthony Froude
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which… — Thomas Jefferson
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have… — Thomas Jefferson
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe… — Loren Eiseley
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but… — Nikola Tesla
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. — Thomas Jefferson

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