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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”

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Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“Personal power is the ability to go into other planes, to cross that threshold from one dimension to another. Why do that? Because it is there to do; knowledge, power, and beauty lie in those other worlds.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.”

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Author:Ron Dart

“I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.”

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Author:Sarah Palin

“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.”

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Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.”

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Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.”

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Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures

“Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.”

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Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Spirituality lies not in the power to heal others, to perform miracles, or to astound the world with our wisdom, but in the ability to endure with right attitude whatever crosses we have to face in our daily lives, and thus to rise above them.”

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Author:Daya Mata

“Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.”

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Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”

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Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.”

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Book:Pensées

Source: Pensées

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”

Source: Eon

“Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.”

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Author:Erich Fromm

“Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.”

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Book:ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...

Source: ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...

“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”

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Author:Octavio Paz

“The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.”

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Author:Jesse Owens

“Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Enthusiasm is the dynamics of your personality. Without it, whatever abilities you may possess lie dormant; and it is safe to say that nearly every man has more latent power than he ever learns to use. You may have knowledge, sound judgment, good reasoning faculties; but no one-not even yourself-will know it until you discover how to put your heart into thought and action.”

“Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.”

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Author:Kgalema Motlanthe

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”

“What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.”

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Author:Francis Galton