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«The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | About: Power | Keywords: predict, predicting, Predicts, shape
«The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.»
«This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?»
Author: Jeanette Winterson | Keywords: hole, shape
«Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.»
«To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.»
«The distinction between liberty and licentiousness is a repetition of the Protean doctrine of implication, which is ever ready to work its ends by varying its shape»
«The other shape, / If shape it might be called that shape had none.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: shape
«The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.»
«The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.»
«The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape»

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