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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."	Erich Fromm
"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."	Robert Lee Frost
"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes."	J(ames) William Fulbright
"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control."	J(ames) William Fulbright
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death."	Robert
"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents."	John W(illiam) Gardner
"Ideas control the world."	James Abram Garfield
"There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution."	Michael Gartner
"Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control."	Allen Ginsberg
"The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace."	Bhagavad Gita
"We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace."	William E(dwart) Gladstone
"The strongest and most effective [force] in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of … power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."	Maurice Godelier
"Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Dennis Martin	Douglas Noel Adams	Dr.
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Edmund Burke	Edward de Bono	Ellen Goodman
Emerich Edward Dalbert	Emile Coue	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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Erich Fromm	Eric Ambler	Eric Butterworth
Eric Hoffer	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Euripides
E(li) Joseph Cossman	Fawn M. Brodie	Flower A. Newhouse
François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F(rancis) Scott
General Charles De Gaulle	General George Catlett Marshall	Geoffrey F. Abert
George Orwell	George Baker	George Herbert Walker Bush
Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Gerard Hargraves	Germaine Greer
Giuseppe Mazzini	Hannah Arendt	Harry Emerson Fosdick
Heini Arnold	Helen Adams Keller	Henrik Ibsen
Henry Alfred Kissinger	Henry Bessemer	Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Miller	Henry Thomas Buckle	Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert Fenstermeim	Herbert "Marshall" McLuhan	Herman Hesse
Honoré de Balzac	Irish Blessing	I Ching
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacob Bronowski	James Madison
James Abram Garfield	James Arthur Baldwin	James Brady
James Francis Byrnes	James Russel Lowell	Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jim	Joan B. Campbell	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johannes "Meister" Eckhart	John Donne	John Allston
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Henry Newman	John Lehman
John P. Grier	John Quincy Adams	John Sloan Dickey
John W(illiam) Gardner	Jon Kabit-Zinn	Joseph Mazzini
Julia Margaret Cameron	Julie Arabi	J(ames) William Fulbright
J. Martin Kohe	Kahlil Gibran	Kareem Abdul-Jabar
Katherine Graham	Laertius Diogenes	Lao-Tzu
Leonardo da Vinci	Leonardo DiCaprio	Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Louis	Lowell Duckett	Ludwig Boerne
Lyman Bryson	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Malcolm X
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Margaret Mead
Margaret Atwood	Margo Kaufman	Mario Andretti
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.	Marjorie Holmes	Mark McGee
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Bertone	Mary Cholmondeley
Mary Manin Morrissey	Maurice Godelier	Michael Faraday
Michael Gartner	Michael McClary	Michael Mc Clary
Midge Dector	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	Muhammad Ali
M. Shawn Covey	Nadia Boulanger	Nadine Gordimer
Napolean Hill	Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela	Neville Chamberlain
Nicholas Boileau	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Noam Chomsky
Orison Swett Marden	Paulo Freire	Paul Aubuchon
Peter McWilliams	Phillips Brooks	Phyllis Bottome
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Ralph Waldo Emerson	Raymond Lindquist	Ray Dickinson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard David Bach	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert	Robert F. Bennett	Robert Henri
Robert Lee Frost	Robert Newton Anthony	Robyn Davidson
Ron Dart	Rosabeth Moss Kanter	Sarah Bernhardt
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