Power
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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