Their Powers Quotes
38 quotes by 38 authors
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still…
— David Hume
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of…
— David Ramsey
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to…
— John Dewey
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We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men…
— Alfred Adler
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to…
— John Ruskin
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Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.
— Blake Griffin
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Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that…
— Humphry Davy
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Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good…
— Augustin Thierry
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I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to…
— Edward Snowden
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Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
— Aldous Huxley
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I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land,…
— Alcee Hastings
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Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
— Thomas Huxley
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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions…
— C. Wright Mills
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are…
— John Wesley Powell
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We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have multiplied, their ramifications…
— Roland H. Hartley
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They [INTJs] are likely, however, to organize themselves out of a job. They cannot continually reorganize the same thing, and a finished product has no…
— Isabel Briggs Myers
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[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary…
— Alexander Hamilton
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