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Letter "G" » great powers
«The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.»
«The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
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Critic,
Librarian,
Writer)
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About:
Writers
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Keywords:
called,
express,
express feelings,
feeling,
great powers,
language,
observes,
perceptive,
reacted,
reacting,
reacts,
sense,
The Great,
The Power,
The three,
three,
writer
«The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.»
«Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action.»
«Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.»
Author: Voltaire
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Philosopher,
Writer)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
dwell,
dwelled,
dwell on,
greater,
great powers,
harm,
harmed,
harming,
harms,
in passing,
I Pass,
longer,
misfortunes,
pass,
passes out,
pass out,
power,
quickly,
remedied,
remedy,
sown,
sow in,
their,
thickly,
thorns,
through
«Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.»
Author: William Shenstone
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Writer)
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About:
Anger
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Keywords:
anger,
angered,
angers,
control,
control it,
force,
great powers,
move,
power,
transmute,
transmuted,
transmutes,
transmuting,
whole,
world power
«The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.»
«There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.»
«The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us»
Author: Voltaire
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Philosopher,
Writer)
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Keywords:
dwell,
dwelled,
dwell on,
greater,
great powers,
harm,
harmed,
harming,
harms,
longer,
misfortunes,
power
«Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writ»