#cleanse

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

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There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. ↗

— Woody Hayes

#getting #hell #kicked #like #nothing

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#air #cleanse #cool #earth #like

In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

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Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#breed #cleansed #disease #her #india

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

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I have never smoked and have always drunk a lot of water, but cleanse, tone and moisturise every day? No way! ↗

— Tori Amos

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And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. ↗

— Aeschylus

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My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#best way #build #cleanse #communication #exercising