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I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

~Abdurrahman Wahid

Topics: Allow Democracy Exert God Move Pressure Students Towards Violence Way Will Without

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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Analytical Anything Engine Exert How Indirect Influence Itself Know Likely Order Originate Perform Reciprocal Science Whatever

Keywords: Abhorrent


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Wen wu contradicts the very American notion of John Wayne being the ideal of manhood. In the wen wu way of thinking, it's much more important to restrain rather than exert yourself through brute power.

~Alex Tizon

Topics: American Being Brute Exert Ideal Important John John Wayne Manhood More Much Notion Power Rather Restrain Than Thinking Through Very Way Wayne Yourself

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Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

~Angelina Grimke

Topics: Christian Demoralizing Die Exert Exerted Faithful Flame Holy Indignation Influence Moral Much North Only Over Rebuke Slavery South Would

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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.

~Baruj Benacerraf

Topics: Approach Biological Control Detailed Determine Exert Genes Identification Mechanism Most Phenomena Processes Proven Study Successful Understanding Which

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Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

~Carne Ross

Topics: Allowing Am Best Best Part Better Brains Control Exert Learning Loves Makes Many Me Organisation Others Part Power Simply Slowly Than Too Us I Am

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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

~Charles Babbage

Topics: Adopted Any Country Directive Exert General Influence Instruction Investigation Knowledge Obvious Principle Require State System Too Will

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Assert Exert Fields Itself Life Likely More Need Open Power Thwarted Trifles

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Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

~Chris Webber

Topics: Basketball Because Behind Bench Else Energy Ever Everything Everything Else Exert Fun Games Go Had Happiness Hardest Hardest Thing Have Fun Kind Like Most Out Perspective Puts Really Sitting The Hardest Thing Thing Things Through

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Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: About Alive Atheist Been Believe Catholic Devout Doubt Exert Feelings He His Hurt Just Pop Public Right Roman Roman Catholic Simply Still Very Village Were Would

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