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Prayer is man's greatest power!
W. Clement Stone
Greatest
Man
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith
About
Administration
Barbarism
Being
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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Martin Luther
If
Am
Not
Allowed
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
Vladimir Nabokov
Safe
Magic
Trash
Power
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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
Vladimir Nabokov
Pine
Item
After
World
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
Jackie Chan
Diary
Downstairs
Exercise
Goes
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin
Allied
Any
Case
Certain
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Oscar Wilde
Dead
Flowers
Garden
Heart
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Adrienne Rich
Power
Above
Universe
Relationship
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James Baldwin
Accept
Black
Definitions
Man
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
James Baldwin
Allowed
Become
Lead
Lives
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
James Baldwin
Black
Forever
Holds
Need
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Example
Gandhi
Leadership
Power
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams
Could
Hands
Husbands
Men
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams
Arbitrary
Broken
Hard
Liable
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams
Am
Convinced
Creature
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I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.
Adam Savage
Age
Could
Early
Early Age
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Demand
Freedom
Only
People
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.
Adrienne Rich
State
Violence
Erased
Concrete
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur
Ought
Dictate
Words
Honor
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller
About
Among
Breeze
Flowers
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
Beautiful
Delight
Flower
Fragrance
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw
Any
BeginningBeyond
Boats
Broken
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
Accurate
Commonly
Cynicism
Got
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Mae West
Right
Now
Think
Censorship
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Conversation
Her
Lacks
Power
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
About
Better
Comfort
Cost
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Became
Because
England
Industrial
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If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Agriculture
Became
Because
Etc
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The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
About
Chosen
Citizens
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George Bernard Shaw
Affection
AllMyLife
Been
Every
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The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Any
Corporation
Followers
Future
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Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Advice
Anybody
Example
Give
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
Nadine Gordimer
Between
Committed
Eye
Fade
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
Nadine Gordimer
Best
Between
Charter
Continuing
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
Nadine Gordimer
Am
Convinced
I Am
Innocence
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
Jackie Collins
Fame
Get
Hollywood
I Think
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
Earth
Fire
Human
Human Soul
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Ferdinand Foch
Command
Meant
Mysterious
Never
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ambition
High
However
Human
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell
Hunger
Nationalism
Power
Self-Deception
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell
Accepting
Beliefs
Both
Contradictory
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
Liberal
Power
Without
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Even on earth, the most powerful forces are unseen. Electricity is unseen, without it our modern world will not be so modern. The Internet is unseen. So, don't be doubtful of God because He is unseen.
Reno Omokri
Earth
Power force
Electricity
Unseen
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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. Bush
Advance
Given
Great
GreatShow
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
Malcolm X
History
Is
People
Memory
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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X
Power
Never
Takes
Back
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
Malcolm X
Power
Defender
Freedom
Greater
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Power doesn't back up in the face of a smile, or in the face of a threat of some kind of nonviolent loving action. It's not the nature of power to back up in the face of anything but some more power.
Malcolm X
Power
Doesn't
Back
Up
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Evil
Failure
Good
Good Thing
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