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• I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

  Alan Cumming

  Depression, Fog, Talking

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• I have a recurring daymare that when the Glorious People's SWAT Teams smash their way in, most of us - by which I mean members of the general freedom movement - will be caught flatfooted, sitting in our underwear behind our computer monitors, guzzling Jolt and gorging on Cheetos, while arguing with our friends and enemies online about immigration or abortion, two of the issues that the Lefties know they can always rely on to keep that general freedom movement divided and powerless.

  L. Neil Smith

  Team, Mean, Two

  "Pushing Rope". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 15, 2009.

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• Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

  Virgil

  Anger, Purpose, Rage

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• Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.

  Anne Enright

  Change, Mars

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• I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

  Thom Yorke

  Believe, Years, Grew Up

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of the nonsexual, those people too young or too old or too poor or too homely or sick or crazy or powerless to be able to afford sexual partners (or the luxury of systematic, sustained and shared introspection, so sexual in its own way). All advertisements and films and songs are addressed to sexuals, to their rash whims and finicky tastes.

  Edmund White

  Song, Crazy, Luxury

  "A Boy's Own Story". Book by Edmund White, 1982.

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• If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.

  Chan Khong

  Peace, Morning, Ubuntu

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• I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

  Thom Yorke

  Believe, Grew Up, Grew

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to be together, when the man feels that he is a male and the woman feels that she is female, without machismo. She likes to be led; he likes to lead. Disagreements may occur later or they may not. When that moment comes, it is important to have positive and productive dialogue, fifty-fifty. The music arouses and torments, the dance is the coupling of two people defenseless against the world and powerless to change things.

  Juan Carlos Copes

  Dance, Men, Two

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• The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, True Power, Skinny

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• Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Kissing, Long Ago, Battle

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• Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Eye, Rays, Talent

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.46

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• They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.

  Richard Wright

  Hate, Play, Feelings

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works”

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• He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Comfort, Lasts, Argument

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.170, BoD – Books on Demand

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• There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Sympathy, Men, Giving

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature”, p.912, 谷月社

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• The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Girls often feel very powerless in their lives and their families, and they kind of mimic the male violence as a way to try and get some of that male power that they see lacking in their own lives.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Trying, Males

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Powerful, Essence, Sacred Feminine

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Culture, Knows

  Phyllis Chesler, Emily Jane Goodman (1976). “Women, money & power”, William Morrow & Co

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• Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.

  Anne Cameron

  Magic, Way, New Places

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• Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are powerless to hurt you-cannot hope to inflict the kind of damage that real, live people do.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Hurt, Real

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Positive, Struggle, Fire

  Leymah Gbowee (2013). “Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War”, p.151, Beast Books

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• Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Hurt, Mean, People

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.684, Simon and Schuster

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• What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children, I suppose. For a while..." "In her house, maybe." She looked around the kitchen. "But the doors are shut," she said, "the doors are locked." "Because you're valuable." "Oh yes. We're precious. So long as we're powerless.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Thinking, Doors

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “Tehanu: The Fourth Book of Earthsea”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• Will only looked at her. There had been light in his eyes on the stairs, as he'd locked the door, when he'd kissed her--a brilliant, joyous light. And it was going now, fading like the last breath of someone dying. She thought of Nate, bleeding to death in her arms. She had been powerless then, to help him. As she was now. She felt as if she were watching the life bleed out of Will Herondale, and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Light, Doors

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