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Letter "P" » powerless
«What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful»
Author: Blaine Lee
| About:
Learning,
Power
| Keywords:
actually, circumstances, determines, increasingly, powerless
«The poor in Resurrection City have come to Washington to show that the poor in America are sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless - and they are criticized daily for being sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless»
«Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
combine, dictionary, for good, innocent, potent, powerless
«Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.»
«Wandering between two worlds, one dead,/ The other powerless to be born.»
«Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
against time, gnaw, gnawed, gnaws, gnaw at, powerless, tooth
«Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
dab, euphemism, euphemisms, powerless
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