Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
Quotes to Explore
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
Warren Bennis
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Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth II
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
Tecumseh
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
Sal Albanese
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'At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.'
Brandon Sanderson
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Torture is abominable, things like ripping out someone's nails, or burning someone with a blowtorch. And those who practice it feel a certain power but it's suicidal. They will never get over what they've done. And it creates sadists.
Saadi Yacef
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The Obama administration, seemingly without any concern or worry, funneled money around U.S. law through foreign central banks to provide a state sponsor of terrorism with $400 million in blood money for American hostages.
Jeff Duncan
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In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself.
Cameron Dokey
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No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different.
Garth Brooks
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe