"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."

Power, Innocence

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"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."

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"You create your world with your thoughts."

Rhonda Byrne, Australian Author

Power, Thought, Creation, Mind

"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Power, Self-Confidence, Strength, Mind

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Fear, Courage, Caution

"You will know who the enemy is intimidated by because they're the ones he targets and keeps beating down."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Power, Enemy, Fear, Truth

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Power, Wisdom, Purpose, Strength

"The mind of a man!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Power, Mind, Man, Thought

"Strength is wealth."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Power, Strength, Wealth, Values

"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

George Orwell, British Author

Power, Equality, Insanity, Control

"We must conquer the fear to avoid losing the battle."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Power, Fear, Losing, Battle, Strength

"I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle - with devoted respect."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

Power, Respect, Enemy, Arrogance

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"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."

Social Issues

"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."

History

"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."

Life

"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."

Man

"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."

Fear

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"You create your world with your thoughts."

"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

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

"You will know who the enemy is intimidated by because they're the ones he targets and keeps beating down."

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."

"The mind of a man!"

"Strength is wealth."

"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

"We must conquer the fear to avoid losing the battle."

"I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle - with devoted respect."

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"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

"The facts are always less than what really happened."

"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."

"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped."

"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."

"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."

"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."

"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."

"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."

"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."