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- Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the… — David Brinkley
- To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect… — Ole Hallesby
- I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war… — Adolf Hitler
- Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. — Gail Godwin
- Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit… — Rebecca West
- It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It… — Helen Keller
- Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed… — Unknown Author
- Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust… — Henry De la Beche
- A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. — Robert Louis Stevenson
- An acquaintance of mine, a notary by profession, who, by perpetual writing, began first to complain of an excessive wariness of his… — Bernardino Ramazzini
- Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something… — Walt Whitman