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Letter "H" » high-powered
«Unlike men, who are apt to stab a total stranger in a drunken brawl or run amuck with a high-powered rifle, we women usually kill our intimates: We kill our children, our husbands, our lovers.»
«There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
considered, high-powered, higher power, Mass, mutant, powered, production, prototype, prototypes, rare, Weird
«Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| Keywords:
high-powered, higher power, human brain, particular, powered, practical, uses, very much
«Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
born-again Christian, born again, Christians, cows, dairy, high-powered, hunting, powered, rifle, rifled, rifles, scope
«A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
carries, causing, high-powered
«MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
agent, ambassador, below, diplomacy, embodiment, foreign, foreign minister, high-powered, higher degree, higher power, hostilities, hostility, lower, minister, officer, plausible, principal, qualification, sent, sovereign, The Ambassadors, The Embodiment, to a higher degree, to the highest degree, to the lowest degree, visible
«Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
high-powered
«Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.»
«Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
addition, additions, Care of, genuinely, goods, high-powered, indifferent, inward, in addition, let go, particular, relief, renounces, renouncing, resign, resigning, resigns, sincerely
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