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“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

World Ideas Time Force Powerful Power Strength Cycles Time Management

Author:Victor Hugo

“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.”

Firsts Ends Past Time Power Generations Mankind First Time Nuclear Weapons Disarmament

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Truth Lying Time Power Trust Honor Teeth Powerless

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”

Use Wisdom Time Power Our Time Time Management Watson

Author:Thomas J. Watson

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”

Thinking Inspirational Action Time Acting Power Addiction Productivity Procrastination Take Time Deliberate Wishful Thinking Time To Think Decisions Made Thinking Of You Forward Thinking Thinking Too Much

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19”

“Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”

Time Grows Power Forgotten Lapses

Book:Aristotle, the Physics

Source: Aristotle, the Physics

“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”

Source: The Magus

“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”

Looks Time Chance Loss Power Depends Future Letting Go Expectations Certainty Uncertainty Time Management Delay Relinquishing

Author:Seneca the Younger

“This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.”

Past Time Power Denied

Author:Agathon

“Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.”

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Author:John W. Gardner

“When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.”

Feels Feelings Dream Bigs Motivational Time Energy Power Too Much Focus Activity Incredibles Planning Abandon Inward Constraints

Author:Brian Tracy

“Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.”

Firsts Time Ability Power Genius First Time Right Thing Precedent

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet”

Time Powerful Power Quiet Musician Most Powerful Deep Thought Quiet Time Quiet Moments

Author:Michael W. Smith

“The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.”

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Author:Babatunde Olatunji

“Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.”

Night Time Evil Walks Break Power Fire Magic Mines Blue Ghost Chains Fairy Lakes Stubborn Fog Virginity Hurtful Evil Things Goblin Curfew

Book:The poems of John Milton

Source: The poems of John Milton

“All human power is a compound of time and patience.”

Humans Time Power Compounds Human Power Time And Patience

Book:Eugenie Grandet

Source: Eugenie Grandet

“After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.”

Time Power Office Authority Colleagues

Author:Augustus

“UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.”

Time Power All Time Attributes One Time Attributes Of God Ubiquity

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.”

Government Time Wish Power Effects Duty Department Executives Officers Judicial

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Now is our time to enliven, ennoble and unfold the auspicious flair of our youth.”

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Author:Joseph Jacson K.