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Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a… — Epictetus
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist… — Konrad Lorenz
Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our… — John Ruskin
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state of… — Curt Sachs
Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of… — Jamake Highwater
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time. — Samuel Smiles
Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player. — Lev Polugaevsky
Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers. — Lincoln Peirce
I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial… — Sepp Blatter
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers,… — Adam Weishaupt
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the… — Joseph Sobran
A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to… — Joseph Sobran
True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence. — Oriana Fallaci
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely… — David Abram
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God. — Saint Stephen
The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of… — Orison Swett Marden
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.… — Carl Jung
Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er… — Abraham Coles
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible.… — Unknown Author
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over… — Isaac Mayer Wise
There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers. — Frank B. Kellogg
I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high. — Frank B. Kellogg
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds. — Garrett Fort

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