3 December 2020 Charles Babbage A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
3 December 2020 James Madison The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
3 December 2020 Toni Morrison The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil’s policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
3 December 2020 John Adams There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
3 December 2020 Saint Teresa of Avila I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
3 December 2020 Robert A. Heinlein It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
3 December 2020 Albert Bandura People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
3 December 2020 Nathan Fillion I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
3 December 2020 John Greenleaf Whittier Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
3 December 2020 David O. McKay Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
3 December 2020 Samuel Richardson Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
3 December 2020 Christopher Nolan The term ‘genre’ eventually becomes pejorative because you’re referring to something that’s so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
3 December 2020 Eric Sevareid Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
3 December 2020 George Whitefield For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
3 December 2020 Don DeLillo People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
3 December 2020 Pierre Corneille Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
3 December 2020 Oskar Schindler I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
3 December 2020 Lawrence G. Lovasik Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
