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"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid." »Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981
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"Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow." »Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
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"Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it." »Clive James
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"I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." »J. Edgar Hoover
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"Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off." »Laertius Diogenes
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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." »Paulo Freire
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"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
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"A lion or a tiger does not need bodyguards; only the weak and the coward need warriors to protect him! A king needs an army and soldiers, because he is weak and powerless. Wherever you see someone protected; there, you will see either the weak or the coward! Strong fist does not require defenders! Shining sword is not in need of protection!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind." »Leonardo DaVinci
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