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Guru Nanak quote: "I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the..."
I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance. Guru Nanak
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life’s journey… Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole? Michel de Montaigne
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. J. K. Rowling
They had a gun; they had a plane - powerful as any genii to be summoned from a magic lamp. And yet, magic rests on a knife-edge - a lamp, a tinderbox, an "open sesame." It is a hair-bridge between captivity and escape; safety and danger; life and death. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Norman Mailer quote: "So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the..."
So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer. Norman Mailer
Harry Shearer quote: "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute..."
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? Harry Shearer
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51) Saul Bellow
Frank Herbert quote: "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts..."
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. Frank Herbert
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass
The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Those powerful moments of true knowledge that we have to paper over with daily life. The music tapped the back of our terrors, too. Things we'd lived through and didn't want to ever repeat. Shredded imaginings, unadmitted longings, fear and also surprisingly pleasures. No, we can't live at that pitch. But every so often... Louise Erdrich
Wassily Kandinsky quote: "Colour is a power which directly influences the soul."
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. Wassily Kandinsky
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains. Leon Trotsky
There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows at an... Lin Yutang
Wislawa Szymborska quote: "The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a..."
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand. Wislawa Szymborska

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