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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear
that it becomes formidable.
- Eric Hoffer
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir 
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything
save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein
The means by which we live have outdistanced
the ends for which we live.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
- Aldous Huxley
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
One can never speak enough of the virtues,
the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Francoise Sagan
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Training yourself to live in the present -
without regretting the past or fearing the future -
is a recipe for a happy life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance,
you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power,
a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
The power of intuitive understanding
will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Know the power of choice.
Fly life on free wings,
and sing to its glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Know that you hold the power to
bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That deep emotional conviction of the presence
of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed
in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
- Albert Einstein
There is a sacredness in tears.
They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...
and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac
I have ready access to a power beyond my wildest imagination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The strength and power of despotism
consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
- Thomas Paine
Fill your heart with the creative power
to accept the past,
decorate the present
and transform the future.
- Osho
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am so honored that the Power of the Universe
has chosen for me to be ME.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Know the power of saying, "Thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Know the power of ritual.
Release your troubles to the cleansing fire of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill
There is a power for good in the universe
greater than you are and you can use it.
- Ernest Holmes
The power of the Wizard lives within me.
I call upon its magic at will - transforming Fear into Love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
My greatest Power and my greatest Inner Peace come
when I Intend my future, and when I avoid Expecting it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
At all times and under all circumstances,
we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
- Werner Erhard
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Know the power of kindness.
Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go,
radiate your kindness to all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen
Mastering others is strength.
Mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
Experience does not err.
Only your judgments err by expecting from her
what is not in her power.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Your word is the power that you have to create
- don Miguel Ruiz
Communism has never come to power in a country
that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
- John F. Kennedy
Know first that you have absolutely no power to change the world,
and then address all your energies and intent toward improving it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Now we have a problem in making our power credible,
and Vietnam is the place.
- John F. Kennedy
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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