Where Power fails to paralyze with constraints, it paralyses by suggestion, by forcing everyone to use crutches of which it is the sole owner and purveyor.


Raoul Vaneigem

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We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY
You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR
I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL
It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR
If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN
Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE
there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE
I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER
Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT
I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN
2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE
I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse t...
J.Z. COLBY
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD
In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE
Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN
Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
HOWARD TAYLER
Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY
Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
CARMELA DUTRA
Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a...
THOMAS FULLER
Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN
Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE
Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS
Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK
By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the cr...
JOE TORRE
Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER
Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
When this initiative fails, the legislature which is controlled by liberals will revoke it.
CLIFF NELLIS
Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
HOWARD TAYLER
Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. I...
RAE CARSON
Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you ...
LEE CHILD
Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.
LOUISE L. HAY
Life IS the gift you were given,
So stop waiting around for your dues.
Use it wisely and y...
MICHELLE GEANEY
To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
STIRLING MOSS
I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT
That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN
The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else ins...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
Mind power; The mind has the sole power & authority to bring the body under subjection & obedience b...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd
WILLIAM PENN
People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL
Everyone is standing by to see which direction it goes.
DEAN PAGANI
Time is a power of its own, and it may be the only power by which some miracles come to pass.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we...
MISHI MCCOY
I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI
If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then l...
RICHARD BRANSON
The future of a movement is conditioned by the fanaticism, yes, the intolerance, with which its adhe...
ADOLF HITLER
Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE
I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND
Actions speak in volume while words are but a mere whisper in a violent wind
TAURUS MORGAN
Maxim 29:
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

-The Seventy...
HOWARD TAYLER
Maxim 16:
Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.

-The Seventy M...
HOWARD TAYLER
First rule of thievery,' Eli said, grinning, 'only run if you're not coming back.' (...) 'First rule...
RACHEL AARON
Things it helps me to remember
When in a bad mood, keep quiet or still.
Baggy jumpers don�...
AIDAN CHAMBERS
...I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them ...
RACHEL JOYCE
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom whi...
CONFUCIUS
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
KURT VONNEGUT
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows no...
UNKNOWN
It is better to win by the power of love than by the power of might.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE
How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER
A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It...
ROBIN S. SHARMA
because it lures women in with a marketing scheme that purports feminism, when in actuality the sole...
THE BRAVERY
it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation whic...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI
Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.
AMIT RAY
Everyone has the power to make someone else happy, some do it by entering the room while others do i...
RANA MAGDY
Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN
Opportunities don’t make U turns.
JAMES J-PIERRE
Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO
I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.
TIGER WOODS
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Şi, vorbind mai general, oricare ţi-ar fi linia în viaţă, dacă constaţi că alţii nu-ţi pre...
BERTRAND RUSSELL, ÎN CăUTAREA FERICIRII
The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.
NUNO ROQUE
We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.
PARUL WADHWA
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be be...
FRIEDRICH LIST
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them...
TED SHACKELFORD
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a...
EDWARD GIBBON
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by...
EDWARD GIBBON
Love is holy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART
Maxim 18:
If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. HOWARD TAYLER
It is not enough to conquer, one must [also] learn to seduce.
VOLTAIRE
Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!
TAE YUN KIM
Maxim 28:
If the price of collateral damage is high enough, you might be able to get paid for ...
HOWARD TAYLER
Maxim 20:
If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win.
HOWARD TAYLER
I would rather be damned by my honesty, than caged by my lies.
OMEGA MAVERICK
Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the ...
ÉMILE ZOLA
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
BILL MEYER
Right now I've got just two rules to live by.

Rule one: don't taunt elephants.
Rule ...
HOWARD TAYLER

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