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«If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.»
«Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.»
Author: Phillip Brooks | About: Prayer | Keywords: equal, equal to, powers, pray, stronger, tasks
«Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.»
«Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.»
«An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.»
«Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.»
«All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.»
«Don't mess with the dead, boy, they have eerie powers.»
«There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.»
«As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.»