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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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
Eddie Izzard
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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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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Jack Kemp
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I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost about 100 pounds and within a year gained it all back.
Al Roker
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The activity will prove to be 'peculiar' by leading the active person into Christ's own passion. This activity itself is perpetual suffering and enduring. In it, Christ is suffered by his disciple. If this is not the case, it is not the activity Jesus intended. In this way, the 'extraordinary' is the fulfilling of the law, the keeping of the commandments.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.
Aziz Ansari
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
Owen Glendower
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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
