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• The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Sight, Consciousness, Thinker

  Sri Aurobindo (1990). “The Life Divine”, p.897, Lotus Press

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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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• 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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• Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past?

  Edward Snowden

  Technology, Past, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• My best source of grounding are animals and nature. Animals live more in the moment and don't worry so much! And nature is proof of a greater power than myself. Both put things in perspective, or at least gently move us forward.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Moving, Animal, Perspective

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• Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Silence, Mind, Depth

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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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• Men in power are always interested in greater power.

  Dan Brown

  Men, Greater

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• We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Height, Infinite, Divine

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.952, 谷月社

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• Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken captive will never be set free (cf. Lk. 11:21-22). In every way, therefore, and especially through peace of soul, we must make ourselves a dwelling-place for the Holy Spirit.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Taken, Dwelling Place

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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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• The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Perfect, Agents, Causes

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: God”

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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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• Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Girl, Power, Opportunity

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• You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.

  Robert Jordan

  Forever, Break, Traps

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.376, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

  Ovid

  Heart, Hands, Mind

  Ovid (1960). “The Metamorphoses”, Signet

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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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• 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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