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  • Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities. -- Leonard Woodcock
  • You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name. -- Dylan Thomas
  • Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. -- Joseph Addison
  • A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. -- Alexander Pope
  • Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort. -- Lucan
  • I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. -- Alexander the Great
  • Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God. -- Guru Nanak
  • In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. -- Murray N. Rothbard
  • In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. -- John Henry Newman
  • When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. -- Phyllis McGinley
  • Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law. -- Gary North
  • Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. -- Pope John Paul II
  • Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort. -- Lucan
  • The power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god. -- John G. Lake
  • Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion! -- Kenneth E. Hagin
  • Dominion by land or sea will appear equally destitute of attraction, when it comes to be generally understood, that all its advantages rest with the rulers, and that the subjects at large derive no benefit whatever. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
  • The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Reduces it to none. -- Emily Dickinson
  • Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world. -- C.J. Sansom
  • Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose. -- Robert Charles Wilson
  • Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and dominated by the Canadian Shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it. -- Harold Innis
  • What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion. -- Gary North
  • There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. -- Alexander the Great
  • A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion. -- Jakob Bohme
  • However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power -- Kate Millett
  • However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power. -- Kate Millett
  • The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom. -- Max Stirner
  • We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. -- George William Russell
  • Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear. -- Ernest Holmes
  • Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics. -- Aaron Klug
  • Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion. -- Dylan Thomas
  • Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. -- William Styron
  • Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails. -- Emma Goldman
  • To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means -- Emanuel Swedenborg
  • To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
  • The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other. -- Lysander Spooner
  • Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. -- Robert Collier
  • I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions. -- Matt Dillon
  • Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. -- Robert Collier
  • Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments. -- James F. Byrnes
  • So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. -- Jules Verne
  • My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.' -- Abraham Verghese
  • Death hath no dominion. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. -- James Anthony Froude
  • Unjust force can never give any just dominion. -- John Arbuthnot
  • My dominion ends where that of conscience begins. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion. -- Ovid
  • The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion. -- Tacitus
  • Love's dominion, like a kings, admits of no partition. -- Ovid
  • Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion. -- William E. Gladstone
  • I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union. -- Robert Burns
  • Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion. -- Samuel Johnson
  • God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work. -- Helen Keller
  • Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression. -- Philip Wylie
  • Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation. -- Neville Goddard
  • And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion! -- Bill Bailey
  • The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They -- Gouverneur Morris
  • You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority. -- John Calvin
  • Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. -- Dylan Thomas
  • Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate. -- Hugh Nibley
  • Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion. -- Spencer W. Kimball
  • It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion. -- Junot Diaz
  • Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence. -- Jean de La Fontaine
  • Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion. -- Dylan Thomas
  • It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones) -- Jeaniene Frost
  • Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . . -- Edward Gibbon
  • Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion. -- Emma Goldman
  • Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth. -- Myles Munroe
  • My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
  • God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end. -- Brigham Young
  • Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. -- Frederick Douglass
  • Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God. -- Catherine Booth
  • Because Adam, God's deputy on earth, transfered his legal dominion to Satan, God became obligated to recognize Satan's legal standing. -- Ed Silvoso
  • more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will. -- Virginia Woolf
  • Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night. -- Thomas Love Peacock
  • The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. -- Tacitus
  • Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change. -- Jim Butcher
  • In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves. -- John Lancaster Spalding
  • We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world. -- Alfred Thayer Mahan
  • [priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals. -- David Hume
  • if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. -- Simone Weil
  • When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion. -- Jerry Bridges
  • The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property. -- Rousas John Rushdoony
  • The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair. -- Amelia Earhart
  • And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. -- Albert Camus
  • When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear. -- Isaac Watts
  • The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn. -- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
  • Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Christ in us must take dominion over the earth.... The next move of God cannot occur until Christ in us takes dominion. -- Earl Paulk
  • Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real. -- Maggie Q
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  • The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. -- Edmund Burke
  • For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion. -- Myles Munroe
  • It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire -- John L. Dagg
  • Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
  • I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture. -- Charles Colson
  • Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. -- Edmund Burke
  • This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. -- Isaac Newton
  • As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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