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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is… — Mahatma Gandhi
A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from… — David Richo
When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons. — George Iles
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known,… — Sophocles
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well under stress. Professional… — Gwynne Dyer
Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build… — Caterina Fake
Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it. — Alan Grant
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. — Ingrid Bengis
In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ...… — James A. Garfield
It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected. — Thomas Jefferson
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a… — James Madison
It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In… — Anthony Romero
The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command. — Steve Blake
Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the… — William Howard Taft
We need to remember that the separation of church and state must never mean the separation of religious values from the lives of public servants.… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers… — James Harvey Robinson
A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a… — Walter Lippmann
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and… — Charles Caleb Colton
No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering.… — Edgar S. Brightman
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the… — Edmund Burke
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race… — Samuel Johnson
When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up… — Louis Thomas McFadden
The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money… — Curtis Bean Dall
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out… — Paul Keating

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