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1705 Powers quotes by 1103 unique authors
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How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be,…
— Joel Salatin
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hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring me here, with…
— Louisa May Alcott
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It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of…
— Rudolfo Anaya
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This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like…
— Lord Byron
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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
— Umberto Eco
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Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still…
— C.S. Lewis
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I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan’s under a frenzy…
— John Berryman
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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer…
— Walt Whitman
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Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.
— Cassandra Clare
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To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
— George Santayana
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Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. .…
— Stanislaw Lem
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In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.
— Jacques Barzun
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He who is our Eternal Father has blessed you with miraculous powers of mind and body. He never intended that you should be less than…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master…
— Henry Miller
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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
— Jane Austen
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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or…
— James Madison
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Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with…
— Wendell Berry
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Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I…
— Toni Morrison
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Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom,…
— Brandon Sanderson
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the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in…
— George Steiner
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All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.
— Katherine Neville
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You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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