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• There's a lot of fear connected with the inner journey because it penetrates our illusions. Taking the inner journey will lead you into some very shadowy places. You're going to learn things about yourself that you'll wish you didn't know. There are monsters in there-monsters you can't control-but trying to keep them hidden will only give them greater power.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Journey, Giving, Wish

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• I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.

  Lynne Stewart

  People, Leader, Revolution

  "Counter-Intelligent". Interview with Susie Day, monthlyreview.org. November 1, 2002.

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• Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

  Charles Colson

  Writing, Imagination, Fiction

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• Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Simple, Complicated, Complicated Things

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• The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

  Frank Herbert

  Lessons, Things Change, Universe

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.162, Penguin

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• I think "quiet" sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Feelings, Noise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Men in power are always interested in greater power.

  Dan Brown

  Men, Greater

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• There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

  Hillary DePiano

  Laughter, Laughing, World

  Hillary DePiano, Carlo Gozzi (2003). “The Love Of Three Oranges: A Play For The Theatre That Takes The Commedia Dell'arte Of Carlo Gozzi And Updates It For The New Millennium”, p.77, Priced Nostalgia Press

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• The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman...

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Intelligent, Hands, Differences

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book X, Chapter I, Section 3), circa 15 BC.

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• Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.

  Sophocles

  Teacher, Teaching, Hands

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• The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

  Richard Branson

  Destiny, Way Forward, People

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• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Freedom, Learning, Army

  "Babylon 5". www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

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• There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit. If you could wrqp every thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be transformed.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Love, Feelings, Would Be

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency. The organs of the body are essentially sustained by the energy of God, and the person who employs various methods to increase this energy will have at his command a greater power for healing than is afforded by any medicine or diet.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Healing, Vegetables, Medicine

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• Believe me, you can have anything you want-and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.

  Roger McDonald

  Believe, Tunes, Want

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• History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition, target only victims they believe they can overpower. When the intended victim draws a gun, the predator realizes that their erstwhile target has the ability to kill them instantly. This tends to modify their behavior immediately without a shot being fired.

  Massad Ayoob

  Believe, Gun, Mind

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• I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know upon what principle it can be contended that any one department draws from the Constitution greater powers than another in marking out the limits of the powers of the several departments.

  James Madison

  Government, Law, Principles

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Sex, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood of every organization. We believe that the best companies are true meritocracies, where people rise and fall through their own contributions, not through game playing or politics. We believe that work isn't simply a paycheck; it is the ultimate expression of a fully realized self. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

  John A. Byrne

  Business, Believe, Fall

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• The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Emotion, Subjects

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

  John Boyd Orr

  Years, Lasts, Fifty

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• There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Overcoming, Resistance, Power Of Love

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• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  Walter Lang

  Angel, Humans, Human Beings

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• I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

  Linus Pauling

  Military, Believe, Evil

  Linus Pauling, Barbara Marinacci (1995). “Linus Pauling in His Own Words: Selections From His Writings, Speeches and Interviews”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

  Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

  Greater

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