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Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.

Mitch Kapor

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Our policy is to deepen the relations with all the countries in the world — monarchies, kingdoms, large powers — we want to respect all differences and have our relationships based on mutual respect.

Hugo Chavez

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There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Thomas Carlyle

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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

Matthew Arnold

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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Satchel Paige

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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.

Zoe Kravitz

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The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.

Sheri L. Dew

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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Mignon McLaughlin

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I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

Donella Meadows

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

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