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Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution… — Ahmed Chalabi
One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate… — Amilcar Cabral
It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make. — Laurie R. King
In the U.S., we've given corporations all the powers and freedoms of an individual but with none of the responsibility. Corporations need to be giving… — Morgan Spurlock
Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with… — William Osler
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe… — Walter Scott
Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without… — Oren Lyons
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas,… — Joseph Addison
The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and… — Edgar S. Brightman
The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the… — Christopher Fry
Terrorism [is] a biological consequence of the multinationals, just as a day of fever is the reasonable price of an effective vaccine . . .… — Umberto Eco
What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the… — Martin Luther
...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For… — Edsger Dijkstra
If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break… — Pete Seeger
All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination… — Kenny Smith
This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers… — Swami Vivekananda
Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget… — William Wordsworth
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love. — Brooke Westcott
"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical… — David Starr Jordan
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers… — Annie Besant
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the… — Celia Thaxter
Abortion is a denial of one of those powers which make women women. — Janet E. Smith
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers… — Pope John Paul II
We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But… — Nhat Hanh

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