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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. – Black Elk

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To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. – Black Elk

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power
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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. – Black Elk

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You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. – Black Elk

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The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry. – John L. Lewis

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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. – Goldwin Smith

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Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. – Richard E. Byrd

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I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have. – Evita Peron

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