#powers

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

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#been #before #court #done #gone

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#burden #certain #could #designated #ever

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#passions #powers #their #vices #virtues

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

#between #charter #continuing #convenience #definition

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested. ↗

— Al Gore

#active role #campaign #empowers #individuals #internet