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“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.”

Knows Men Self Reason Feelings Light Desire Force Born Powerful Enemy Anger Blow Superiors Heat Internals Betray Self Control Inferiors Uncontrollable

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us today. The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.”

“But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being contented; one is never short of a little But men want always to be powerful and famous So that their fortune rests on a solid foundation And they can spend a placid life in opulence. There isn't a hope of it; to attain great honours You have to struggle along a dangerous way And even when you reach the top there is envy Which can strike you down like lightning into Tartarus. For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level.”

Source: De rerum natura

“there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.”

States Reason Powerful Growing Indifferent Autonomous

Book:The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America

“As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.”

Persons Reason Lying Bits Powerful Careers Technology Subjects Species Science And Technology Primates Powerful Person

Author:Ann Druyan

“One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control--to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic. The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient's control over every interaction.”

Thinking Feels Reason Might Loses Powerful Groups Limits Patient Therapy Collectives Allowing Interaction Reluctant Therapists Coerce

Book:Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

Source: Inpatient Group Psychotherapy

“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.”

World Reason Political Powerful Leader Century Periods Enlightenment Europe Tradition Roots Employed Better Place Political Leaders

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

“The transcendent and the numinous can be accessible to the most materialistic of scientists, without positing the supernatural. At the same time, there is no reason to mistrust the same experiences in believers simply because they posit a supernatural source. The question is not, "Does God exist?" It's irrelevant. The question is whether believers and nonbelievers can rejoice in the same experiences and not denigrate the other's explanation as to the origins of very powerful human responses.”

Humans Doe Reason Powerful Source Scientist Unity Response Believer Explanation No Reason Rejoice Irrelevant Very Powerful Materialistic Transcendent Mistrust God Exists Numinous

Author:Norman Cota

“Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?”

Source: The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the profoundest ignorance of history could prevent one from recognizing this. For the truth is that religion and irreligion are cultural variables, but killing is a human constant.”

Humans Doe Reason Religious Powerful Ignorance Truth Is Constant Killing Seeking Conviction Sole Compelling Recognizing Merciful Being Me Variables Compelling Reason Irreligion

Author:David Bentley

“I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.”

“For some reason, the women in my life have always been extremely powerful. I've learned a great deal from that. I've learned that we're all women when we're complete and we're all men.”

Men Reason Deals Powerful I've Learned Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I enter into nirvikalpa samadhi, most can see this light, or feel it. This light creates very powerful, steady spiritual transformation. The reason you are here is to sit in this light.”

Feels Reason Light Spiritual Powerful Buddhism Transformation Steady Very Powerful Rama Spiritual Transformation Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.”

Reason Light Force Powerful Blow Internals Uncontrollable

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The love of country is more powerful than reason itself.”

Country Reason Powerful Patriotism

Author:Ovid

“Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.”

Should Children Reason Powerful Our Children Ill Copies Refrain Depraved Misdeeds

Author:Juvenal

“power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.”

“Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.”

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Author:Shawn Achor

“We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.”

Mind Humans Reason Force Understanding Powerful Masters Most Powerful Openness Fragile Outlook New Knowledge

Author:Robert Kennedy

“Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.”

Reason Whole Lying Universe Powerful Rights Feminism Prejudice Empires Superstitions Fanaticism

Book:The Rights of Woman

Source: The Rights of Woman

“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 reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.”

Art Reason Powerful Generations Car Music Is Driving Our Generation

Author:Steve Earle

“I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.”

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Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful really. They all had a high school. That vulnerability is completely permanent and, as an actor, it's a good thing.”

People Thinking Way Reason Character School Certain Actors Powerful High School Good Things Permanent Vulnerability Helpful Loser Very Powerful

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“There is no reason to be disappointed. India will progress very fast and the skills of our youth will take India ahead.”

Reason Powerful Progress Youth Skills India No Reason Disappointed

Author:Narendra Modi

“If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.”

People Ifs Children Reason Helping Government Jobs Parent Powerful Industry Internet Involved Authority Our Children Your Children Free Speech Educator

Author:Jim Carroll

“The main reason why I'm a documentary filmmaker is the power of the medium. The most powerful films I've seen have been documentaries. Of course, there are some narrative films that I could never forget, but there are more documentaries that have had that impact on me.”

Has Beens Reason Film Courses Forget Powerful Impact Mediums Narrative Reason Why Filmmaker Most Powerful Never Forget Documentaries

Author:Richard Ray Perez

“I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in my best interest all the time. Even when climbing I can't escape the clutches of my ego. The reason why I started climbing was because I could be free from myself.”

I Can Real Self Reason Interest Powerful Ego Reason Why Climbing Clutch Real Self

Author:Chris Sharma

“One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.”

Way Giving Reason Play Film Fall Literature Speak Powerful Loneliness Example Representation Falling Apart Representing

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“I think the parable is a peculiar way of saying that redemption is immanent whether or not it's imminent, that the world to come is in a sense always already here, if still unavailable. I find this idea powerful for several reasons. For one thing, it's an antidote to despair.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Stills Ideas Reason Powerful One Thing Despair Redemption Peculiar Antidote Parables

Author:Ben Lerner

“The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.”

Reason Powerful Impossible Irony Pins

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.”

Reason Powerful Enemy Most Powerful

Book:The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making

Source: The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making

“Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.”

Reason Powerful Gold

Author:Democritus

“Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.”

People Thinking Believe Has Beens Reason Next Wish Powerful Taught Safety Most Powerful Believe In God Infancy

Book:A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42

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