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Criss Jami
“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
tags: competition, deserving, destruction, dictatorship, entitlement, man, nature, overpowering, power, pride, selfishness, stealing, thieves, tyranny
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Erik Pevernagie
“If we put the sterile mechanism of our brain on hold, we can view an ocean of enticing eye-opening perspectives. Life offers us an array of choices allowing us to discover a spray of overpowering colors, and hear overwhelming new sounds, and smell the intense fragrances of nature. ("The final decision" )”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: brain, choices, colors, eye-opening, fragrances, nature, overpowering, perspectives, smell, sounds
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Erik Pevernagie
“Love can become art when it fulfills each other's expectations by living graciously "in alliance' with each other without making do with skimpily 'living together' or aiming at overpowering or taking possession of the other..("I wonder what went wrong")”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: expectations, graciously, living-in-alliance, living-together, love, overpowering, taking-possession, what-went-wrong
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Dejan Stojanovic
“Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator
tags: black, color, dejan-stojanovic, final, final-vctory, literature, literature-quotes, overpowering, poetry, poetry-quotes, power, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, the-creator, thoughts, victory, wisdom
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: acceptable, accomplishment, account, accounts, adeptness, admissible, agony, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, appreciation, apprehension, author, authors, awareness, be-acquainted-with, be-conversant-with, be-familiar-with, be-up-to-speed-on, be-versed-in, benighted, book, books, brookable, capability, capacity, cognition, cognizance, command, comprehend, comprehension, consciousness, cultivated, cultured, desolation, despair, discomfort, distress, educated, education, endurable, enlightened, entertain, entertaining, entertainment, erudite, erudition, escape, escapism, essay, essays, expertise, expertness, fiction, funny, grasp, grief, have-a-grasp-of, have-knowledge-of, have-learned, have-mastered, have-memorized, heartache, heartbreak, hilarious, humor, humorous, humour, ignorance, ignorant, illiterate, inexperienced, insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, joke, jokes, know, knowledgable, knowledge, knowledgeable, learned, learning, literature, man-of-letters, manageable, mastery, men-of-letters, misery, narrative, narratives, nonfiction, novel, overpowering, pain, perception, proficiency, quotations, quotes, realization, sadness, satire, scholarly, scholarship, schooling, skill, sorrow, stories, story, sufferable, suffering, supportable, sustainable, tolerable, too-much, torment, torture, unacceptable, unbearable, understand, understanding, uneducated, unendurable, unenlightened, unhappiness, uninformed, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlettered, unmanageable, unread, unschooled, unsophisticated, untaught, untrained, untutored, unworldly, via-dolorosa, well-educated, well-informed, well-read, wisdom, woman-of-letters, women-of-letters, wretchedness, writer, writers
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, arrogance, arrogant, behavior, behaviour, funny, hilarious, humble, humility, humor, humorous, humour, insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, joke, jokes, modest, modesty, oppressive, overpowering, overwhelming, satire, tolerable, tolerate, too-much, unacceptable, unbearable, unendurable
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C.S. Lewis
“And now it came. It was fiery, sharp, bright and ruthless, ready to kill, ready to die, outspeeding light: it was Charity, not as mortals imagine it, not even as it has been humanised for them since the Incarnation of the Word, but the translunary virtue, fallen upon them direct from the Third Heaven, unmitigated. They were blinded, scorched, defeaned. They thought it would burn their bones. They could not bear that it should continue. They could not bear that it should cease.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
tags: incomparable, love, overpowering, paradox, purifying, unbearable
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“And then there was my magic. A wicked smile played across my lips as I thought about it. I couldn't do much yet, but I was rapidly learning the one thing I had taken to like a duck to water: spell circles.
I'd gotten enough of a crash course with Max during the battle, and since my blood was practically made to charge spells, I was doing quite well with them.
Our mountainside was filled with them now. It had taken me two solid months, but I'd finally encircled the area so that Ryker could freely transform and fly in his dragon shape without seeing him. Well, most anyone; I'm still learning after all.
I found if I applied myself I could learn the runes on my own. No Book of Sisters needed, just like Max had said. And apply myself I did. I will never be helpless again. I spent a lot of days practicing while Ryker went hunting. I may not be able to conjure anything, or transform things or curse things. But I could put a set of rules in a spell circle, and with my blood as the active component, my circles were pretty near indestructible now.”
― Sabrina Blackburry, Dirty Lying Dragons
tags: blood, catching-up, diy, magic-circle, overpowering, practicing, supernatural-romance, witch
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“Be wary of those with overpowering presence. It is usually a one-way street taking away your freedom of choice. Gravity is compelling particularly when it is a Black Hole.”
― R.N. Prasher
tags: domination, gravity, inspirational, overpowering, pull, warning
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Amit Kalantri
“To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest.”
― Amit Kalantri
tags: advertisement, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, catch-line, catchphrase, competition, complaint, conquest, cry, inspirational, life, motivational, movie-dialogue, optimisim, overpowering, philosophy, proverbs, script-writing, slogans, tagline, victory, win, wisdom
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Luigina Sgarro
“You are really strong when you know you could (easily) overpower another and choose not to.”
― Luigina Sgarro
tags: force, oppression, overpower, overpowering, strength, strength-quotes
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