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• Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.

  Frederick Buechner

  Powerful, Heart, Love Is

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• We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Sleep, Kissing, Long

  Guy de Maupassant (2016). “Bel Ami”, p.58, Guy de Maupassant

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• You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it.

  Corey Taylor

  Hurt, People, Watches

  Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.116, Da Capo Press

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• Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Lying, Light, Order

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• The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  War, Creatures

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

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• That's love? To let someone beat you and be hateful to you? These people are all so... Weak. Powerless to change their lives. I know the feeling. All you can do is take it. No one understands how it beats you down.

  Julie Anne Peters

  People, Feelings, Hateful

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• All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

  David Eagleman

  Fleeing, Creation, Ends

  David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Tales from the Afterlives”, p.19, Canongate Books

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• You said you were a victim. That's why...that's why ultimately, you and I aren't matched for each other. In spite of everything that's happened, I've never though of myself that way. Being a victim means you're powerless. That you won't take action. Always...always I've done something to fight for myself...for others. No matter what.

  Richelle Mead

  Mean, Fighting, Done

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• One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but don’t feel powerless. White people don’t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempowerment. Part of the mythology that they’ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.

  Winona LaDuke

  Teaching, White, Differences

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• Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

  John Legend

  People, Littles, Way

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• We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

  Chris Hayes

  Powerful, America, Accountability

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• If you think you are powerless, then you are

  Monica Denise Brown

  Thinking, Ifs

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• And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love Is, Treasure, Want

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• When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Son, Focus

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• Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips, it might powerfully melt, sweeten, and ravish our hearts! Remember, brethren, a holy calling never saved any man, without a holy heart; if our tongues only be sanctified, our whole man must be damned. We must be judged by the same gospel, and stand at the same bar, and be sentenced to the same terms, and dealt with as severely as any other men.

  John Flavel

  Heart, Men, Understanding

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• Why should my love be powerless to help another?

  George MacDonald

  Love Is, Helping, Should

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.

  Mark Lynas

  Climate, Outcomes, Portal

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• Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless.

  Gary Bauer

  Powerful, Rights, Support

  FaceBook post by Gary L. Bauer from Apr 08, 2010

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• Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

  Translated in Music Journal, p. 37, September, 1965.

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• Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.

  C. S. Lewis

  Animal, Emotion, Aids

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

  Rick Perry

  Sex, Choices, Alcohol

  "Rick Perry’s Lesser-Known First Book Could Be A Distraction From Economy-Centered Message" By Jon Ward, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2011.

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• We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt ends -- the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality dominate and plunder it.

  Friedrich Engels

  Reality, Two, Political

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor

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• You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Bears, Instruments

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stanley Sadie, Fiona Smart (2016). “The Letters of Mozart and his Family”, p.481, Springer

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• The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

  August Strindberg

  Husband, Eye, Jealous

  August Strindberg (1967). “A Madman's Defense”, Peter Smith Pub Incorporated

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• Your natural instinct, from your broadest Nonphysical perspective, is to know your power. Fear is a vibration when you feel powerless. Your natural instinctual Nonphysical vibration is to know your worthiness, know your rightness, know your value. And the feeling of fear is always when you are contradicting that thought.

  Esther Hicks

  Perspective, Feelings, Natural Instinct

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