"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

Power, Motive, Obstacles, Wind

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"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

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"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

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"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

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"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

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"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

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"Most powerful is he who never cared for power."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

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"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

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"The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me."

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"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

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"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love."

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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."

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"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."

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"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."

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"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt."

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"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."

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"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."

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"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."

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