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Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before. -- Kathryn Bigelow
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. -- Jaron Lanier
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. -- Van Wyck Brooks
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist. -- Arthur Erickson
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. -- Sallust
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are. -- Dale Archer
One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something. -- Michael Shannon
Ability is God-given, prowess is earned, -- John Harbaugh
There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time. -- Patrick Rothfuss
We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess. -- James L. Jones
Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy. -- Nigella Lawson
The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus. -- Edward Gibbon
I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization. -- Marcus Garvey
He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive. -- Jack London
If we take our youth seriously, provide tools to strengthen their natural prowess, and empower them to make the changes they want to see in the world, then this planet and her creatures have the chance to heal and flourish. -- Ian Somerhalder
I was told by a girl once that I should teach a course on how to kiss properly. I thought that was really a nice compliment. I then asked her what she thought about my sexual prowess and she recommended I talk to a guy she used to date. Body blow. -- Dane Cook
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation. -- Samuel Gompers
What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure it is much too broad and narrow , Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride. -- J. V. Cunningham
Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that has a brain a third of the size of ours can do something that with all our technological prowess we can't accomplish? Which is to not kill each other. -- Claudine Andre
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial of human rights. For the first time in history, in this age of unprecedented wealth and technical prowess, we have the power to save humanity from this shameful scourge. Let us summon the will to do it. -- Kofi Annan
The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess. -- Fran Lebowitz
In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess. -- Ellen Gilchrist
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess. -- Ken Livingstone
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions. -- Harsha Bhogle
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical fitness and mental prowess. -- Nita Ambani
Whereas China has set about systematically striving for Olympic success since it re-entered global competition after years of isolation, India has remained complacent about its lack of sporting prowess. -- Shashi Tharoor
One of the wonderful things about Batman is that he is just a man. He doesn't have superpowers or extraordinary powers other than his tremendous intellect and physical prowess. -- Tracy Hickman
The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells. -- Saul Williams
Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid. -- Seth Berkley
Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess. -- Orison Swett Marden
But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it. -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prowess is part of our greatness as a nation. Sadly, among the rich industrialized nations, we also lead by a substantial margin in the rate of poverty among children. -- Margaret Geller
It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories. -- Thiruvalluvar
The more a woman appreciates the hunting prowess of her man, the more he will kill for her. -- Michael DiMarco
True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone. -- Tobias Smollett
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end. -- Fareed Zakaria
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Orphei DrÃ¤ngar possesses a combination of power, energy, and culture. Joy of discovery combined with professional technical and musical prowess. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. -- David Biespiel
First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur. -- Arnold Palmer
We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious. -- Anthony Daniels
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power. -- Upton Sinclair
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of. -- Seneca the Younger
Please stop worrying about how much you can do! STOP judging yourself and others on physical abilities and prowess, stop believing MORE is better, stop the madness! -- Bryan Kest
Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess. -- Stephen King
If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America. -- John F. Kennedy
I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been a byword for top physical prowess and spectacular athletic performance. -- Giorgio Armani
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess. -- Bertrand Russell
Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it. -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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