"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

Power, Thoughts, Nothing

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"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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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."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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

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"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

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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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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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."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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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."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

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"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."

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"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."

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"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."

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"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate."

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"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed."

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"It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived."

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"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"

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"There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another."

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"The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt."

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