#pow

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. ↗

— James Thurber

#depend #economics #farce #funnier #his

I cured with the power that came through me. ↗

— Black Elk

#came #cured #i #me #through

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#best #course #either #empower #false

It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#brute force #charm #effect #employing #force

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#blind #destroy #free #imprison #make

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#calms #deepest #fed #gentlest #how

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ↗

— Epictetus

#about #beyond #cease #only #our

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #commit #injustices #make #power