We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
quote by William Godwin
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
quote by Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick
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I am told that we are just animals
I am told that we are just animals
and like all other species
perform the tasks
and eat, live and die
and that this life is all that we have.
Still this humanoid sees
the grandeur of the sunrise
and how it burst through the clouds
in different colours
and there’s something utterly great in it.
I am told that subconsciously apes may equate
the sunrise with the colour
of some ripe fruit,
but I see a master creator’s hand there
and no hunger stirs in me.
I am told that we are just animals
and still I am aware of myself
and my place in this life
and how infinite small
I am against the Supreme God
and of the values and laws
that protects me
and of the education
that set my career on its way.
I am told that we are just animals
and yet I have the capacity
to reason, to comprehend,
to speak, to calculate
and to plan
and believe that I am rather
a human being called man.
poem by Gert Strydom
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
quote by Omar N. Bradley
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
quote by Stephen Covey
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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
quote by Roman Jakobson
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
quote by Alvin Toffler
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Here To Perform Tasks Then Leave
It is there within us,
Left safe...
And kept protected.
All of our fears we do not admit,
There is 'something' in the mix...
That does not satisfy what we get.
'What about 'me'?
Are my feelings not legitimate?
Why aren't they perceived? '
And yet,
With all there is from us to give...
Many live to know of this.
There is a feeling of dismissal.
And this is lived with acknowledgement.
We must live and trust,
That a power far greater than us...
Knows our deeds.
And we believe this 'power' relieves,
With an erasing done of a grief...
We did not originate to initiate,
Those feelings of distrust received.
And yet,
We spend our lives regretting...
A sacrifice we do that comes to upset,
Those unappreciated efforts made...
Gone unrespected and left to go undetected,
By those we feel are close to our hearts.
Not all,
But many feel they are not benefactors...
Of what they know to be,
An unconditional love that is given.
And received by others as if from the giver,
This to them is meant to be a special delivery!
'What about 'me'?
I am not living ungrateful or selfishly.
What about me,
We ask.
Am I here just to perform tasks,
Then leave?
What about me? '
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
quote by Phillips Brooks
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Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.
quote by Robert Shea
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We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
quote by James Madison
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
quote by Phillips Brooks
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Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
quote by Pierre Curie
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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
quote by Thomas Nagel
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Transfixed Upon Themselves
There is only one conversation,
Heard from the me-me-I-I types!
Generally regarding their needs,
And self devotion.
Hear them express with a seriousness...
What they don't have.
What they could have.
And 'who' kept them from getting it,
After granting them chances...
To perform those tasks.
Transfixed upon themselves they are.
As if they tolerate others to exist.
Just to listen to their nonsense...
And deliver.
Whatever it is that is wished!
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
quote by Jean Froissart
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If Hitler had had the talents and the temperament of a genuine artist, if Stalin had had the capacity to become a first-rate theoretician, if Napoleon had had the makings of a great poet or philosopher they would hardly have developed the all-consuming lust for absolute power. Freedom gives us a chance to realize our human and individual uniqueness. Absolute power can also bestow uniqueness: to have absolute power is to have the power to reduce all the people around us to puppets, robots, toys, or animals, and be the only man in sight. Absolute power achieves uniqueness by dehumanizing others.
quote by Eric Hoffer
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Power Rangers S.T.D.
Power Rangers S.T.D.
Power Rangers to the rescue!
Go! Go! Go!
Power Rangers S.T.D.
Power Rangers to the rescue!
Go go go go!
Horny heros on our side
Horny heros all the time
Out to perform safe sex and save the universe
No matter who you are
If you're near or far
Fat or thin
Black or white
It'll be all right
Cos you can always call out
Sex Patrol....Sex Patrol Delta!
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Power Rangers go!
Power Rangers S.P.D.
Power Rangers to the rescue!
Go go S.T.D.!
poem by Ramona Thompson
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I love you
I love you because
You love me
You love me because
I perform action with you.
I perform action with you
Because you have strength
Because you have power
Because you have glory
And because because you have
Other other attributes.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Because because
I love you because
You love me
You love me because
I perform duty with you.
I perform duty with you
Because you have strength
Because you have power
Because you have glory
And and because because
You have other other attributes.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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Miraculous Healing
Some people have the power
locked away in their mind
to perform great leaps of faith,
and heal people doctors have given up upon.
They do not understand the power
only that it is there.
They cannot call themselves doctors
having passed no medical exams.
They can only do what they are instructed
by the power within their mind,
performing feats which defy logic
and do them in front of anyone.
Some say we all have that power,
but only a few can use it.
Hence, the mystery goes on
within the miraculous healers
that are among us everywhere.
21 November 2009
poem by David Harris
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