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Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. -- Henry Clay
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. -- Samuel Johnson
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. -- Ron Wyden
If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
Angels possess greater powers than do human beings. -- Walter Lang
Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility. -- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential. -- Nita Leland
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. -- Jack Kevorkian
Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action. -- Hugh Elliot
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. -- Jean Toomer
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. -- John Dewey
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. -- Samuel Johnson
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. -- Arthur C. Clarke
We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans. -- Leopoldo Lopez
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. -- G. M. Trevelyan
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being. -- Sri Aurobindo
To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings. -- Ramin Bahrani
The human brain represents the infinity opportunity our powers are endless if we understand, harness, and empower ourselves to look inside and educate ourselves on our potential. -- Ilchi Lee
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire. -- Samuel Johnson
By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. -- James G. Frazer
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder. -- C. V. Wedgwood
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy. -- Honore de Balzac

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