#powers

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! ↗

— Barry Cornwall

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Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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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

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. ↗

— Napolean Hill

#defeat #fear #know #may #possessed

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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