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• For members of the political class, the crucial question is always: how can we push out the frontier, how can we augment the government's dominion and plunder, with net gain to ourselves the exploiters who live not by honest production and voluntary exchange, but by fleecing those who do so?

  Robert Higgs

  Government, Class, Political

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• Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Home, Heart

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• Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Riches, Authority

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.389, Ravenio Books

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• It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.

  Michel Foucault

  Secret, Limits, Moments

  Michel Foucault (1978). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, New York : Pantheon Books

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• Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

  Martha Rosler

  Civilization, Easy, Form

  Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.270, MIT Press

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• This is the year of expansion in the Kingdom of God! Tent pegs will span to the north, the south, the east, and the west in the realm of revelation in the dominion of the Kingdom, where you will walk in a greater dimension of the manifestation of the Kingdom for your life!

  Keith Miller

  Years, Expansion, East

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• Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Together, Vices, Poison

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.321

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• My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ends, Conscience

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• There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Goal, Rooms, Spheres

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

  Dan Millman

  Sports, Art, Shining

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.165, New World Library

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• On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose, Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend . . . He reached a middle height, and at the stars, Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank. Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Tired, Dark

  'Lucifer in Starlight'

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• As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Joy, World, Alas

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anna Swanwick, Henry George Bohn (1860). “Dramatic works of Goethe: comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont”, p.273

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• Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Moving, Joy, Causes

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.64

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• Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Giving, Church

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Sir John Tenniel (1868). “Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son”, p.17

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• Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Children, Wife

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.178

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• The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Mind, World

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Kings, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

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• If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Kings, Ambition

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.111

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• It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Home, Vain

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1871). “Summaries of Thought”

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• Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Rights, Law, Mind

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.30

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• Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.

  Philip Wylie

  Powerful, People, Minorities

  "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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• Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

  John Arbuthnot

  Giving, Unjust, Force

  John Arbuthnot (1751). “The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”

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• In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Animal, Giving, Kingdoms

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Farther I could find it in my heart to wish that you had been at the head of a hundred thousand Israelites . . . & marching with them into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the dominion of it. For I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.

  John Adams

  Country, Independent, Heart

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.813, Library of America

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• The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
  With courage to behold the restless day,
  And count it fair.

  Amelia Earhart

  Choices, Soul, Pay

  "Amelia, My Courageous Sister : Biography of Amelia Earhart". Book by Muriel Earhart Morrissey and Carol L. Osborne, 1987.

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