#powers

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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


#beginning #beyond #boats #broken #burned

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.


Beverly Sills


#candle #christians #demonic #does #fail

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.


Georg Simmel


#cog #enormous #form #hands #his

Humility is not cowardice. Meekness is not weakness. Humility and meekness are indeed spiritual powers.


Swami Sivananda


#humility #indeed #meekness #powers #spiritual

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.


Ralph Steadman


#development #even #exactly #go #hindrance

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.


Roy Moore


#balances #basic #because #checks #constitution

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.


Steven Patrick Morrissey


#glorified #i #i think #music #other

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.


Daniel Patrick Moynihan


#agencies #been #birth #conservatives #endowed

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.


John Boyd Orr


#approval #arms #been #empires #force

The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.


Rand Paul


#power #powers #restricted #spend #tax