Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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The Trees Of Life
The trees command authority when called upon,
Young men or women proclaim facts more than brawn.
Branches of knowledge come from people called trees,
Young trees are like orchards, they are not absurdities.
The abilities we define as pleasant come from corrections,
Young learning has solved our problems and aberrations.
May our problems exert funerals no longer,
The trees of life exert the influence of an actor.
poem by Naveed Akram
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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
quote by George Eliot
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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
quote by Dean Koontz
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
quote by Frances Wright
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My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
quote by Clara Schumann
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Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
quote by Richard Perle
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
quote by Vince Lombardi
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The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
quote by John Thorn
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Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
quote by Philip Zimbardo
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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.
quote by Charles Horton Cooley
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We Lose For Credit
We exert our energy to do certain things
Against our interests and spirits
Just to show to the world our caliber
And feed our ego without fiscal gain.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
quote by Emile M. Cioran
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
quote by William Ellery Channing
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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.
quote by Charles Babbage
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The morning is precious
The best part of the day
for one to exert energy
is the early hours of mornings
that we squander on daily chores.
Drop it. Do equipping jobs.
27.04.2001, Pmdi
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The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
quote by Sandra Day O'Connor
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You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
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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.
quote by Abdurrahman Wahid
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
quote by Albert Einstein
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