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Powerful Quotes (page 87)

Ovid quote: "Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they..."
Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you. Ovid
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. Swami Vivekananda
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap... Now there are times when a whole generation is caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand... Herman Hesse
John F. Kennedy quote: "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. John F. Kennedy
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill. Noam Chomsky
Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war. But it does not think this is a war between independent powers. It thinks it is a civil war, a rebellion, and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel. C. S. Lewis
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in? an interesting hole I find myself in? fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright,... Douglas Adams
Og Mandino quote: "A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on..."
A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms. Og Mandino
James Allen quote: "Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness..."
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. James Allen
When a couple has an argument nowadays they may think it s about money or power or sex or how to raise the kids or whatever. What they're really saying to each other, though without realizing it, is this: "You are not enough people! Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters. Samuel Adams
Love may, indeed, love the beloved when her beauty is lost: but not because it is lost. Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. Love is more sensitive than hatred itself to every blemish in the belove? Of all powers he forgives most, but he condones least: he is pleased with little, but demands all. C. S. Lewis
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. Simone Weil
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally..."
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Aristotle quote: "Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of..."
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. Aristotle

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