Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
Patch Adams
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
F. Sionil Jose
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
Yoko Ono
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Najib Razak
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright
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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Ralph Cudworth
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The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express.
Samuel Beckett
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Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.
Aberjhani
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The poem, through candor, brings back a power again That gives a candid kind to everything.
Wallace Stevens
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Not everybody gonna be in front of the camera forever, man. That's impossible. Don't get me wrong, I love doing that. But behind the scenes and the power is what I like. I like being in control. And maybe someday I'd be a showrunner.
Lil Rel Howery
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries Shah
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All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.
Ellen Key
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This guy is just fumbling around.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
