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~ The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. ~

~ Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously. ~

~ I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves. ~

Oprah Winfrey

~ Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. ~

Gloria Steinem

~ Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins. ~

Lord Chatham

~ It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power ~

John Adams

~ Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. ~

James Arthur Ray

~ We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. ~

William Glasser

~ Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ~

Henri Frederic Amiel

~ The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another. ~

George Eliot

~ When awareness is brought to an emotion, power is brought to your life. ~

Tara Meyer Robson

~ There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. ~

Booker T. Washington

~ Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain ~

Eugenie Clark

~ We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work ~

William James

~ Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think ~

Robert Henri

~ Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it ~

Mikhail Gorbachev

~ The most powerful†weapon†on earth is the human soul on fire ~

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

~ Nonviolence is a powerful and just†weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. ~

Aaron Klug

~ Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ Silence is the ultimate weapon of power ~

Charles de Gaulle

~ The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness ~

Harry S. Truman

~ Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not ~

David Seabury

~ As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties ~

Arthur Henderson

~ The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State. ~

Bertrand de Jouvenel

~ Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to addÖ artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government ~

Andrew Jackson

~ Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed ~

James Wilson

~ Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.† ~

Annie Leibovitz

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