#powers

...beauty is not symmetry of parts- that's so impotent -as Mishima says, beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, & finally destroys... ↗

— John Geddes

#destroys #mishima #overpowers #symmetry #beauty

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#government #judicial-power #republicanism #separation-of-powers #men

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#muslim #muslim world #poorest #powers #today

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#exercise #extension #franchise #great #invested

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. ↗

— William Bennett

#develop #difficulty #even #give #greater

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers. ↗

— Angela Davis

#had #i #individual #leadership #myself

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more. ↗

— Brad Bird

#any #anyone #astonished #because #come

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#education #end #fill #furnish #great

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#effectually #fear #mind #passion #powers

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor. ↗

— George William Russell

#even #ireland #material #mightiest #more