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Mans greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. - Frederick Douglass Quotes
Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums. - Louis Leakey Quotes
We all agree that weve got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that theyre never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act. - Barbara Lee Quotes
However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistans neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another. - Lakhdar Brahimi Quotes
You dont have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didnt know you possessed. - Napolean Hill Quotes
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. - Henry Miller Quotes
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. - William Wordsworth Quotes
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. - W Clement Stone Quotes
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy. - James F Byrnes Quotes
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. - Napoleon Hill Quotes
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. - Susan Sarandon Quotes
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war. - Wendell Willkie Quotes
But Racines extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. - Lytton Strachey Quotes
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this. - Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes
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 Quotes
Its a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. - Anne Sullivan Quotes
I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing. - Uma Thurman Quotes
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. - Jane Austen Quotes
So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japans interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want. - William Kirby Quotes
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government. - Joe Baca Quotes
The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God. - Jonathan Mayhew Quotes
A city that outdistances mans walking powers is a trap for man. - Arnold J Toynbee Quotes
And, as I have said, its made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits arent external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. - James Merrill Quotes
In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence. - James Monroe Quotes
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career. - Verne Troyer Quotes
Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business. - Al Smith Quotes
Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress. - Daniel Ellsberg Quotes
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. - James Thurber Quotes
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