The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have pla

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. – John Maynard Keynes

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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Im sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. – Alice Walker

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I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we dont even know are available to us. – Michael J. Fox

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The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. – Charles Hodge

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The establishment wonders why we cant get more of the black vote. Its because its not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people dont think alike. Most black people just vote alike. – J. C. Watts

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