Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
Discover Your Inner Strength: Quotes to Empower You - page 44
Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.
“During times of persistent hardship is when the warrior learns the most about his fortitude.”
Bodhi Sanders
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.
Lee Kuan Yew
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
Arthur C. Clarke
We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.
Malala Yousafzai
“The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.”
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
Bernard Lown
There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.
Momofuku Ando
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
Farley Mowat
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy.
Nora Ephron
Being able to talk about your body openly is such an empowering thing.
Coco Rocha
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There is a powerful force within us, an un-illuminated part of the mind - separate from the conscious mind that is constantly at work molding our thought, feelings, and actions.
We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
