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...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate,… — George Orwell
An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own. — Donald Curtis
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that… — Charles Dickens
To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere. — Nathaniel Branden
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension. — Winston Churchill
The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers… — Learned Hand
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and… — C.S. Lewis
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great… — Edmund Barton
You know the Model of your Car. You know just what its powers are. You treat it with a deal of care, Nor tax it… — John Kendrick Bangs
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a… — Haile Selassie
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers… — John F. Kennedy
We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself,… — Michel de Montaigne
The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and… — John Dewey
I kinda went back to that period between '88 and '94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers… — Brian McKnight
We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories.… — Loren Eiseley
Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from… — Hippocrates
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war. — Wendell Willkie
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's… — Phillips Brooks
Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what… — Samuel Johnson
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best. — Samuel Johnson
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any… — Samuel Johnson
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts… — Samuel Johnson

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