Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power. ~Ludwig von Mises
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
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I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment; that is not the Islamic way. ~Naguib Mahfouz
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill. ~Danish Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable. ~Robert Smith
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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A dog that barks does not bite. ~Arabic Proverb
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
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There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
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My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. ~Rick Derringer
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Everybody has talent, it is just a matter of moving around until you have discovered what it is. ~George Lucas
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