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I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority. Shirley Hazzard
Albert Einstein quote: "It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to..."
It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews. Albert Einstein
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. W. Clement Stone
Ayn Rand quote: "It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but..."
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know. Ayn Rand
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O..."
Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities. J. R. R. Tolkien
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together. Mark Twain
The bible may be the greatest story every told, but the most popular story is about a couple fornicating that stops for one reason or another while it is still novel. Kurt Vonnegut
From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage. Alexis de Tocqueville
Here follows the substance of what I said, written out entirely for your benefit. Pay attention to it, or you will be all abroad, when we get deeper into the story. Clear your mind of the children, or the dinner, or the new bonnet, or what not. Try if you can't forget politics, horses, prices in the city and grievances at the club. I hope you won't take this freedom on my part amiss; it's only a way I have of appealing to a gentle reader. Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in... Wilkie Collins
Jenny Holzer quote: "Fear is the greatest incapacitator."
Fear is the greatest incapacitator. Jenny Holzer
But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side. The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think in such a case that nothing at all had been achieved. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Heraclitus quote: "To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speakthe..."
To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speakthe truth and actin keeping with its nature. Heraclitus
What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life. Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing. John Berryman
The notion that we are products of our environment is our greatest sin; we are products of our choices."Margaret Mead(this may not be her exact wording, but it's close enough). Margaret Mead

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