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~ It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. ~

Sitting Bull

~ The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ~

Gustave Courbet

~ Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses. ~

Henry Moore

~ Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ~

Shakti Gawain

~ The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige. ~

Virginia Woolf

~ The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ~

John Stuart Mill

~ There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. ~

John Adams

~ It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. ~

Herbert Hoover

~ The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul. ~

Ralph Peters

~ If you are committed to creating value and if you arent afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps; but with no real power. The world respects creation; people will get out of your way. ~

Candice Carpenter

~ No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. ~

J. Michael Straczynski

~ Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. ~

William Pitt

~ Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. ~

Robin Morgan

~ The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. ~

Jim Fowler

~ The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It's about how finance and business regularly, continuously insert their own self-interested deals and exceptions into rules and agreements that are then announced to the public as "free trade." ~

William Greider

~ Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them. ~

Japanese Proverb

~ A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. ~

Henry A. Wallace

~ Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. ~

Henry A. Wallace

~ Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead. ~

Eli Stanley Jones

~ Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. ~

Morihei Ueshiba

~ The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. ~

Bruno Bauer

~ The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him. ~

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

~ It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. ~

Herbert Hoover

~ Power is always gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. ~

Wendell Willkie

~ The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. ~

Charlie Chaplin

~ When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. ~

Akhenaton

~ Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ~

Walter Savage Landor

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

George Eliot

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