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“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
Virginia Woolf
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
Virginia Woolf
“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.”
Walt Whitman
“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.”
Walt Whitman
“But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.”
Alan Watts
“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”
John Adams
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
John Adams
“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
John Adams
“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.”
John Adams
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”
John Adams
“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.”
Ansel Adams
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
Marcus Aurelius
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
Marcus Aurelius
“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
Edmund Burke
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
Edmund Burke
“People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.”
Edmund Burke
“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
Edmund Burke
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Edmund Burke
“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”
Edmund Burke
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.”
Richard Bach
“I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.”
Yogi Berra
“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.”
Ambrose Bierce
