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Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours. -- Maria Edgeworth
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. -- Andre Gide
Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life. -- Joseph Cook
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. -- Albert Camus
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. -- Demosthenes
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. -- W. L. George
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. -- Dalai Lama
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. -- Jim Morrison
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. -- Thomas Paine
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. -- Yasser Arafat
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. -- Benjamin Franklin
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. -- Gautama Buddha
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. -- Epicurus
The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. -- Theophile Gautier
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. -- Igor Stravinsky
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. -- William Ames
The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. -- Helena Blavatsky
We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. -- Herodotus
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. -- Felix Adler
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. -- Paul Dirac
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. -- Cecil Rhodes
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. -- Francis Crick
Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need. -- George Muller
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work. -- Thomas Kean, Jr.
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. -- Doris Lessing
Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss... -- Pablo Neruda
Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power! -- John Webster
I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect. -- Temple Grandin
Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Only through love can we obtain communion with God. -- Albert Schweitzer
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty. -- John C. Calhoun
We obtain things when we no longer want them. -- Cesare Pavese
Before my death I hope to obtain my life. -- Charles Bukowski
Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use. -- Evangelos Venizelos
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. -- James Allen
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. -- Theophile Gautier
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. -- Buddha
To obtain something, something of equal value must be lost. -- Hiromu Arakawa
To obtain victory by any means and with any weapon. -- Chris Bradford
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. -- Thomas Paine
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. -- George Bancroft
If you want it you must obtain it by great labor. -- T. S. Eliot
Remember: in the end, it is the merciful who obtain mercy. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
There is no end to the power a man can obtain. -- Swami Vivekananda
Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception. -- George Harrison
Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial. -- Alain de Botton
How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest. -- John Pugsley
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master -- Demosthenes
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain. -- Leon Uris
Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. -- Margaret Fuller
Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further. -- Henri Poincare
In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it. -- Leo Tolstoy
Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction. -- Pasquier Quesnel
To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often. -- Ed Parker
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God. -- Horace
It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command. -- Saadi
Why should I obtain by force that which I can obtain by cheating? -- Doc Holliday
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty. -- John Calvin
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results. -- George Bernard Shaw
CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain. -- Ambrose Bierce
What you want is one thing, and what you cannot really obtain is another. -- Hugo Chavez
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. -- George Weah
Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. -- Chico Hamilton
Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal -- Esther Hicks
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. -- Horace
Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence. -- Nathan Hale
True greatness is not wealth but thought;through true thought, greatness and wealth is obtain -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We can have peace, but if we continue to hold out, we can obtain more. -- Haim Bar-Lev
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. -- James A. Garfield
Men are said to desire women, Severian. Why do they despise the women they obtain? -- Gene Wolfe
To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't. -- Pierre Beaumarchais
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. -- Bertrand Russell
The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good. -- Thomas Hobbes
You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God. -- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
Pray to Saint Philomena, What ever you ask from her, She will obtain for you. -- Pope Gregory XVI
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer. -- Oswald Chambers
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. -- Jean Genet
No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain. -- Joseph Epstein
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain. -- John Heywood
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence. -- Eric Hoffer
Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain anything you really desire. -- Mark Victor Hansen
It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain. -- Samuel Johnson
Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is curious how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want. -- Leonard Nimoy
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord. -- Sallust
By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole. -- Martin Luther
I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars. -- Alain Ducasse
Opportunity is being in God's place, at God's time, following God's instructions, to obtain God's results. -- Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it. -- John Wesley
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying. -- Herodotus
The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly. -- Chris Prentiss
Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air. -- Richard Stallman
Love our Lady. And she will obtain abundant grace to help you conquer in your daily struggle. -- Josemaria Escriva
Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation. -- Marcus Eremita
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it. -- Euripides
The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. -- Dan Brown
There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. -- Edmund Burke
Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can. -- Jonathan Edwards
The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God. -- John Wycliffe
In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness. -- The Tru Sum
He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them. -- Aristotle
In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others. -- CrimethInc.
Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire. -- Aristotle
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress. -- Propertius
The Lord grants in a moment what we may have been unable to obtain in dozens of years. -- Philip Neri
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ. -- Martin Luther
Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities. -- Bela Kiraly

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