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• Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most important energy is human spiritual energy and when I say spiritual, I feel like have to be very careful, I don't mean religious, I mean the energy of the mind, the energy that exists within us.

  Yoko Ono

  Spiritual, Religious, Mean

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• With Great power comes great need to take a nap

  Nico

  Naps, Needs, Percy Jackson And The Olympians

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• Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

  Heinrich Heine

  Powerful, Love Life, Blessing

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.172

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• Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Men, World

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

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• If we don't love ourselves, we would not love others. When someone tell you to love others first, and to love others more than ourselves; it is impossible. If you can't love yourselves, you can't love anybody else. Therefore we must gather up our great power so that we know in what ways we are good, what special abilities we have, what wisdom, what kind of talent we have, and how big our love is. When we can recognize our virtues, we can learn how to love others.

  Ching Hai

  Spiritual, Love You, Inspiration

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• Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

  Henry Tizard

  Fate, Pride, Science

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• Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Desire, Helping

  1980 Republican National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 17 July 1980, Detroit, MI

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• Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

  John Taylor of Caroline

  Character, Government, People

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• I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

  Oliver Sacks

  Unique, Alzheimer's, Tools

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• The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.

  Hilma af Klint

  Change, Art, Work

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• That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Wise, Sweet, Prayer

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• If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential, not because of faith in God or president, or western investments but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in Knowledge and Science and thanks to the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.

  Zhores Alferov

  God, Education, Knowledge

  "Zhores I. Alferov - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2000.

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• In silence a question has great power, because in silence a question will always lead you deeper into your experience. If there is no grounding in silence, a spiritual question is going to lead you into your mind.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Silence, Mind

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• All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers

  Hjalmar Branting

  League, Firsts, Degenerates

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• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

  William Butler Yeats

  Past, Disrespect, Catholic

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• [War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Concern

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• In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mind, Body, Accepting

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• The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

  Ben Elton

  Century, Worst, Over It

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• Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there.

  William Shirley

  Inner Life

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• Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

  Vernon Howard

  Self, Self Knowledge, Our Lives

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• Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  War, Fighting, Able

  A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• There is great power in loving, consistent, fervent family prayer. Don't deny your families this blessing. Don't allow the strength that comes from family prayer to slip away from you and your loved ones through neglect.

  John H. Groberg

  Prayer, Blessing, Loved Ones

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• Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Passion, Imagination, Judging

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• The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Color

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• A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.

  Leo Szilard

  Exercise, Thinking, Desire

  "President Truman Did Not Understand". U.S. News & World Report, August 15, 1960.

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