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“The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.”

Men Feelings Action Desire Powerful Influence Fame Constant Motive Dread Reproach Posthumous

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.”

Politics Grows Powerful Party Power Weapons Presses Communism Most Powerful Powerful Weapons

Book:Works

Source: Works

“The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.”

Ifs Men Should Powerful Wonder Rich Dog He Man Gratitude Benefits Charity Inferiors Favour Scrap

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.”

Men Humans Ideas Enough Powerful Glory Weak Intellect Tongue Endless Realms Sentiments Omnipotent Interpreter

Book:Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America

Source: Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America

“He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.”

Imagination Powerful Objects Affection Most Powerful Accustomed

Book:Essay on beauty, by Francis, lord Jeffrey; and Essays on the nature and principles of taste, by A. Alison. Repr. of the 5th ed

Source: Essay on beauty, by Francis, lord Jeffrey; and Essays on the nature and principles of taste, by A. Alison. Repr. of the 5th ed

“What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.”

Firsts Humans Self Political Powerful Self Esteem Movement Son Instinct Feminist Motherhood Esteem My Son Activist Recognizing Deliberate Junk Assertion Housewife Stunned

Author:Mary Blakely

“Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.”

Men Moments Energy Powerful Power Dancing

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.”

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.”

People Self Earth Force Interest Powerful Lessons Embrace Investing Most Powerful Life Lesson Self Interest

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.”

Way Earth Spiritual Religion Order Names Women Powerful Christianity Enlightenment Threat Perpetuating Spiritual Enlightenment

Author:Riane Eisler

“All powerful is the rule of fashion.”

Powerful Fashion

Author:Publilius Syrus

“There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.”

Three Evil Powerful Power Greed Lust

Author:Tulsidas

“In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.”

World Wells Found Ability Powerful Military Most Powerful Concealed Often Is Rustic

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.”

People Sometimes Form Individual Nations Social Powerful Atheism Expression Becoming Temples Altars Unbelief Priesthood

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“What is love at first sight but a proof of the powerful but silent language of physiognomy?”

Firsts Language Powerful Beauty Sight Silent Proof Love At First Sight What Is Love Physiognomy

Author:Mary C. Ames

“Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far from the ideal. They are a corrupted version, in which powerful interests prevent competition from playing its natural, healthy role.”

Country Form Interest Natural Powerful Roles Healthy Capitalism Ideals Weak Competition Versions Free Market

Book:Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism

Source: Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism

“A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.”

“Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.”

World Reality Seems Truth Able Moving Passion Powerful Fiction Please Truth Is Moved Appearance Most Powerful Resemblance

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.”

Reason Shows Powerful Duty

Author:Stanisław I Leszczyński

“The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.”

Source: Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession

“There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.”

Ifs States Earth Faces Science United Powerful Technology United States Mankind Movement Ignorance Revolution Depends Intellectual Thrive Activist Have Faith

Author:Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

“With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.”

Powerful Argument Gentleness Persuasive

Author:Theophile Gautier

“In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.”

Powerful Remains Longing Instinct Motherhood Spite Most Powerful

Book:Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot

Source: Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot

“words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.”

Needs Hate Individual Language Interest Powerful Destiny Elements Ambition Vanity Empires Engines Fifth Love Hate Fifth Element

Book:Francesca Carrara

Source: Francesca Carrara

“But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children.”

Children Two Humanity Strong Nations Justice Simple Powerful Civilization Deeper Two Things Sentiments

Book:A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

“My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.”

Thinking Heart Father Prayer Powerful Friends Praying My Friends Essence Most Powerful Helpless Helplessness

Book:Prayer

Source: Prayer

“One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.”

America Moving Memories Powerful Western Finest

Author:William Kittredge

“A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.”

Enough Happens Desire Energy Decision Powerful Law Of Attraction

Author:Esther Hicks

“Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction's response to the thoughts you think and the story you tell about your life. Your money and financial assets; your body's state of wellness, clarity, flexibility, size, and shape; your work environment, how you are treated, work satisfaction, and rewards - indeed, the very happiness of your life experience in general - is all happening because of the story that you tell.”

Source: Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition

“Every moment of your experience is the peak of life experience. This is where your powerful now is.”

Moments Powerful Life Experience Moments In Time Cherish Every Moment

Author:Esther Hicks

“Let others vibrate as they vibrate and want the best for them. Never mind how they're flowing to you. You concentrate on how you're flowing. Because one who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful, more influential than a million who are not.”

Want Mind Energy Powerful Millions Connected Streams Influential Vibrate

Author:Esther Hicks

“What you do is miniscule in comparison with what you choose to think, because your vibration is so much more powerful and so much more important.”

Thinking Important Powerful Comparison You Choose Vibrations

Author:Esther Hicks

“Take 15 minutes daily, thinking of pleasant scenarios regarding your body, with the sole intent of enjoying your body and appreciating its strength and stamina and flexibility and beauty. When you visualize for the joy of visualizing rather than with the intention of correcting some deficiency, your thoughts are more pure and, therefore, more powerful. When you visualize to overcome something that is wrong, your thoughts are diluted with the "lackful" side of the equation. In time, your physical condition will acquiesce to your dominant thoughts.”

“Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.”

Powerful Leader Optimism Tanks Contagious Batteries Being A Leader Artillery

Author:Rick Hillier

“The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.”

World Leadership Lines Powerful Power Hero Exercise Determined Unhappy Divided Heroic Interaction Powerless Small Parts

Author:Vaclav Havel

“He is most powerful who governs himself.”

Powerful Most Powerful

Author:Seneca the Younger

“When a strong wind blows, the clouds vanish and blue sky appears. Similarly, when the powerful wisdom that understand the nature of the mind arises, the dark clouds of ego disappear.”

Mind Wisdom Strong Nature Dark Powerful Sky Wind Ego Blue Clouds Blow Disappear Arise Blue Sky Dark Clouds Strong Winds

Author:Thubten Yeshe

“The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.”

Needs Should Mind Powerful Planes Firm Guidance Pilots Very Powerful Jet Jet Planes

Author:Thubten Yeshe

“Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer.”

Has Beens Earth Courses Prayer Powerful Wonderful Generations Century Divine Mercy Clemency

Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini

“So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Palaeolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.”

World Humans Facts Earth Moving Simple Powerful Race Revolution Weapons Innovation Conquer Human Race Strings Suspects Globes Unseen Ingenuity Human Will Taming

Author:E. J. W. Barber

“If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.”

“A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”

“The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.”

Persons Self Character Feelings Action Powerful Depends Habit Discipline Judgment Aspiration Self Discipline Good Person Good Character

Book:Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

Source: Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

“The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.”

Love Causes Poor Powerful Rich Speech Weakness Weak Unhappy Attractive Affirmation Unattractive Attractiveness Unloved Self Talk Rich Or Poor Being Unloved

Author:Ralph Charell

“I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.”

Stills Sometimes Facts Powerful Depression Illness Mental Illness Get Better Undertow

Author:Tracy Thompson

“The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.”

People Years Matter Seems Powerful Birth Ties Most Powerful Adoption

Author:Anthony Brandt

“To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”

Moments Inspiration Force Forget Powerful Attention Practice Meditation Dying Vitality Forget You Vigor Powerful Life

Author:H. E Davey

“Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.”

Pain Simple Powerful Evidence Tradition Doctors Patient Being True Therapy Injury Ingredients Contracts Surgery Intervention Very Powerful Time Spent Back Pain

Book:Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

“The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at work. Reagonomics, the recession, and the expansion of a minimum-wage service economy also helped, in no small measure, to slow and even undermine women's momentum in the job market. But the backlash did more than impede women's opportunities for employment, promotions, and better pay. Its spokesmen kept the news of many of these setbacks from women. Not only did the backlash do grievous damage to working women C it did on the sly.”

“A mantra is a very powerful word. It vibrates like music does, only not on this plane but on other planes of reality. It creates a powerful force. It starts the kundalini moving.”

Doe Reality Moving Force Powerful Meditation Buddhism Planes Very Powerful Mantras Vibrate Powerful Words

Author:Frederick Lenz