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A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.


James Allen


#help-self #quotes #quotes-i-love #quotes-on-life #quotes-that-make-sense

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.


Barbara Ehrenreich


#economy #exercise #expect #how #judge

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.


Albert Einstein


#conviction #deep #emotional #forms #god

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.


Albert Einstein


#been #combine #only #power #rarely

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.


Albert Einstein


#care #course #god #intellect #make

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.


Dick Thornburgh


#constitutionally #defined #federal #government #however

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.


Albert Einstein


#catastrophe #changed #drift #everything #modes

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.


Dwight D. Eisenhower


#against #complex #councils #disastrous #exists

While it is easy to get caught up in the beliefs and attitudes of others, it is easier still to make one’s self a victim of circumstance. Victims of circumstance believe they have no power over their lives, since they are merely the play-things of fate. Since they believe this, it is therefore so.


Stephen Richards


#self-help #stephen-richards #attitude

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






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