#powers

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The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.


Charles Eastman


#awe #character #elements #fire #forces

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.


Uma Thurman


#austin powers #comic #i #like #love

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.


Alvin Toffler


#also #effects #hazards #increase #our

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.


Robert Toombs


#benefit #congress #day #desire #first

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.


Wendell Willkie


#indirectly #into #lead #man #people

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.


A. N. Wilson


#elizabeth #elizabeth i #giving #had #her

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.


William Wordsworth


#late #lay #little #much #nature

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.


Sydney J. Harris


#asking #democracy #only #ought #persists

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.


Paul Hawken


#change #coherent #either #forces #future

But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.


Arthur Hertzberg


#always #appointed #court #decide #enough