Powers Quotes
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North Korea is a small country with few resources and a moribund economy. In spite of all this, however, it has managed to survive and successfully manipulate larger players, including an impressive number of the great powers.
Andrei Lankov
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When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.
Benjamin Wittes
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The nucleus cannot operate without a cytoplasmic field in which its peculiar powers may came into play; but this field is created and moulded by itself. Both are necessary to development; the nucleus alone suffices for the inheritance of specific possibilities of development.
Edmund Beecher Wilson
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Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers.
Edwin Hutchins
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I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
Eugene Delacroix
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I don't have any powers other than the power of sex. And humor.
Morena Baccarin
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It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
Thomas Aquinas
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From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers.
Nancy Mairs
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Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.
Rene Char
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Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
Homer
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Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.
George V. Higgins
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Data is what powers all of us and our lives. It is ubiquitous among our now-connected lives. I love how it is now the oxygen of our Internet world.
Harper Reed
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Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.
Homer
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Believing in development, in a new generation of those who create and those who enjoy, we call together the youth of today. And as a youth which bears the future, we aim to create space to live and work, as opposition to the well-established, older powers. Everyone who reproduces, directly and without illusion, whatever he senses the urge to create, belongs to us.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.
Rene Descartes
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Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
Akhenaton
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She's an old woman possessed of great powers - but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.
Mohammed Morsi
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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.
Walt Whitman
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We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.
Genevieve Behrend
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The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
John Ruskin
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I'm challenging the powers that be.
Richard Ojeda