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• It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Poetry, Feelings

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other...

  Donna J. Haraway

  Fall, Writing, Men

  "A Cyborg Manifesto". Essay by Donna J. Haraway, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1984.

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• Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our 'accepting' and 'willing' are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Determination, Choices, Grace

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  I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

  Howard Schultz

  Success, Leadership, Believe

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on the beanstalk for a moment, then returned to mine. "You believe now. Be safe and smart up there, my Gen. Be yourself." Before I could answer, my mother turned away and walked quickly toward the house. I turned to face the beanstalk. There is no going back now, I thought. For better or worse, there was only going forward. There was only going up. Seizing the trunk of the beanstalk with both hands, I pushed off from the World Below and began to climb.

  Cameron Dokey

  Mother, Being Yourself, Sorry

  Cameron Dokey (2010). “The World Above”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• For most women, being seen, having others pay attention to you, is imagined and experienced as more desirable and more powerful than commanding an army or seizing control of the means of production and reproduction.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Powerful, Mean, Army

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• And now she has you seizing control of my army.” “Your army? I thought this was Gaunt’s.” “So did he.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Army

  Michael J. Sullivan (2009). “Nyphron Rising”, p.319, Ridan Publishing

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• Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

  Austin Phelps

  Inspirational, Persistence, Opportunity

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• If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I should say: "Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will." Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu, Wu Qi, Wei Liao, Sima Rangju, Jiang Ziya (2017). “The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China”, p.139, Arcturus Publishing

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• When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean without waves. Within this stability a thought arises. This thought is like a wave which forms on the surface of the ocean. When we leave this thought alone, do nothing with it, not "seizing" it, it subsides by itself into the mind where it came from.

  Bokar Rinpoche

  Ocean, Meditation, Mind

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• Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

  Mike Cloud

  Responsibility, Government, Liberty

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• The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.

  Barry Goldwater

  Order, Nwo, World Government

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• Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Life, Opportunity, Persistent

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.2, University of Iowa Press

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• Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Causes

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, 1513.

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• The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Change, Son, Grandmother

  Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.31, Rutgers University Press

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• Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

  Robert Nozick

  Philosophy, Political, Liberty

  "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" by Robert Nozick, (p. 169), 1974.

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• Bidding the wizard farewell, he turned to his daughter, who held up her finger and said, “Daddy, look — one of the gnomes actually bit me!” “How wonderful! Gnome saliva is enormously beneficial!” said Mr. Lovegood, seizing Luna’s outstretched finger and examining the bleeding puncture marks. “Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaim in Mermish — do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies!” Ron, passing them in the opposite direction, let out a loud snort.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Farewell, Opposites

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• Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Fear, People, Worry

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• I could have easily not run for president, and people would have come up and said, "Oh, man, you would have been a great president." Or even a lousy president. But I never would have known had I not chosen to run. Part of life is seizing the moment.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Men, People

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• When your happiness comes primarily from the happiness of others, you know you have moved from a 'me' experience to a 'we' experience. And the whole problem-solving and opportunity-seizing process changes.

  Stephen Covey

  Opportunity, Problem, Process

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• What Secretary Ash Carter is looking at is the constant pressure that Russia's putting on our European allies. The way that Russia is trying to move the boundaries of the post-World War II Europe. The way that he is trying to set European countries against one another, seizing territory, holding it in Crimea. Beginning to explore whether they could make some inroads in the Baltics.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, War, Moving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A more just world is possible. In most of the global issues, and also in so many of the development issues I'm involved in in our region, the young people that I am working with are seizing the tools at their disposal and trying to use them well, for issues far larger than their immediate personal benefit and concerns. That's what gives me hope.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Issues, People, Giving

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• I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Opportunity, Innovation

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• And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and do it gladly so.

  Julius Caesar

  Hate, War, Blood

  "We're not all citizens of the US yet". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2002.

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