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easily hearts men power ring
...But the hearts of men are easily corrupted... And the ring of power has a will of its own.
magic power thoughts-and-thinking
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
freedom power
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
center melted politics power
In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.
truth powerful moving
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.
answer feasible life origin power scientific
...Creative Power is the only feasible answer to the origin of life from a scientific perspective.
act aptitude chance choice cold courage fixed gift moral nature power resolve
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is willpower.
assume attempting contempt critics-and-criticism figure manifest nor power shows subject understand wit
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
powerful work haste
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
heart power common-sense
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
power support president
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
exercise men influence-and-power
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.
mother country powerful
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
gratitude dog powerful
The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.