"The first step is you have to say that you can."
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"You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God."
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"The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments."
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"Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
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"People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense."
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"Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant."
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"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
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"Good debt is a powerful tool, but bad debt can kill you."
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"Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect."
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"Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well."
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"I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all."
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"I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful."
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"It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive."
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"People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people."
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"Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects."
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"A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it. Partaking of the universal community of minds, it infiltrates, grafts itself on to, the mind of him who it refutes, among other contiguous ideas, with the aid of which, counter-attacking, he complements and corrects it; so that the final verdict is always to some extent the work of both parties to a discussion."
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"Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word."
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"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."
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"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win."
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"The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power."
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