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""Silence is a power only in the hands of enlightened minds, but weakness in the mind of helpless hands."~Anuj Somany" – Anuj Somany
A cult is a religion with no political power. – Tom Wolfe
A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting. – Rahul Katragadda
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind. – William James
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. – Unknown
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. – Dixie Lee Ray
Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing – Casino
Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. – Walt Whitman
Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. – William Plomer
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. – Dejan Stojanovic
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life. – Brigham Young
From a psychological point of view, when people go under pressure in life, be it economically or otherwise, they seek support from the people closest to them, usually religious or ethnic groups. They also start blaming other groups who have more control over the national resources. If the gap of power is wide, this will eventually create deep divisions in the nation. The divisions can take on new forms of conflict such as class warfare, ethnic, religious, political unrest and sometime civil war. The only effective protection against national divisions is an open socioeconomic system with a large and growing middle class – Med Jones
He who fears something gives it power over him. – Moorish Proverb
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. – J. S. Bach
I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power. – David McCord
I will do everything in my power to prevent a Palestinian state – Naftali Bennett
If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. – Albert Einstein
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut. – Albert Einstein
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. – Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ride of your life. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. – Buddha
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you. – Charles Gordon

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