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Quote by Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks

Other quotes by Phillips Brooks

To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. – Phillips Brooks

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Knowledge
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Phillips Brooks
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Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as Gods children. – Phillips Brooks

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Confidence
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Phillips Brooks
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. – Barney Frank

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. – John Adams

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My relationship to power and authority is that Im all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. – Ayn Rand

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Extremists think communication means agreeing with them. – Leo Rosten

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With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got. – George W. Bush

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