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He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.


Salvador De Madriaga

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He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.
SALVADOR DE MADRIAGA He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of hi...
SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that...
HORATIO NELSON I think he's better. He still has the same skills. He's better because he's smarter. He knows how to...
AARON GLENN Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in whic...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or...
PIERS ANTHONY He knows how to get to the free throw line and he knows how to get people to foul him.
COREY BELSER Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
JOHN STUART MILL He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
JOHN STUART MILL Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
JOHN CLARKE Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are mar...
OSWALD MOSLEY He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.
ITALIAN PROVERB I prefer to think the kid who took him has grown up now, and has his own kids. He now probably knows...
BOB MCDERMOTT Xherdan Shaqiri is a player who can make the difference because he can decide games on his own.
OTTMAR HITZFELD He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
BERTHOLD AUERBACH He who knows how to obey knows how to command.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA When you see a person acting violently, ask yourself whether he knows how powerful he is. If he knew...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA His swim (in the 50 free) was a jaw-dropper. The opportunity (to qualify for state) is there. He jus...
BRIAN DICKMANN Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to ...
ASTRID KNOWLES He who knows how to beg can always leave his money at home.
VIKRANT PARSAI He should make his own decision and the people who pay him can decide what they want to pay him.
WENDELL SAILOR He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him...
W. BRUCE CAMERON The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled o...
THEODOR ADORNO A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you...
LAO TZU The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows h...
ALDOUS HUXLEY John is a person of strength. He knows who he is. He's a very religious person. He's been through so...
JOE LIEBERMAN A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, ...
MALCOLM DE CHAZAL A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, wi...
MALCOLM DE CHAZAL The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.
MARTY RUBIN He wanted to see how the people [feel] about democracy and the war in Iraq. When he heard my negativ...
SHATHA ATIYA The person who knows his calling will not be embarrassed in front of great and famous people because...
SUNDAY ADELAJA People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at...
ROBERT MUGABE He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsm...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI It is difficult to conjecture, from the conduct of him whom we see in a low condition, how he would ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON the things that keep him in power and enable him to inflict the kind of pain he does on his own peop...
ANTHONY ZINNI We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own adva...
JOHN NEWTON He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
JULES MICHELET Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is t...
J. MARTIN KOHE It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately o...
HERBERT HOOVER When one does what is within his control, he knows his only weakness ; but when he does beyond his c...
ANUJ SOMANY People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know...
ROBERT MUGABE He who tells his own secret will hardly keep another’s.
VIKRANT PARSAI Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buyi...
DAVID KORTEN A man who is advised and he takes it, is still a man who acts from his own free will.
ESAN MAGAZINE Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; w...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows how to live, knows more than enough.
VIKRANT PARSAI The man who listens only to his own voice knows little but is never wrong.
E.R. ROCK Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
SWAMI RAMDAS Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know
RICHARD BURTON Everyone sees his size. But I really like his technique. He knows how to use his hands and move his ...
ROMEO CRENNEL Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI He wanted to serve his country and keep us free.
BILLY STALVEY No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not ...
WOODROW WILSON Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the ...
AYN RAND He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign. [Fr., Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.]
VICENTIUS LUPANUS (VINCENT DE LA LOUPE) If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has som...
WILLIAM E. HORDERN He knows the way the game is played, and he knows he has to fight to keep a career. He's obviously v...
ANDREW PETERS Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
L. RON HUBBARD Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place...
POPE JOHN XXIII A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority dis...
ELMER T PETERSON He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
DAVID LEE ROTH And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utt...
AESCHYLUS It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
MALIN AKERMAN The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exi...
AUBERON HERBERT If he doesn't get himself out of his cul-de-sac on Iraq, he may decide to step down and pave the way...
FRANK DECKER The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for th...
THOMAS HOBBES It's always up in the air. It's up to him to decide. Who knows if this is final? It's open-ended.
EDWARD COOKE He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) When Fannius from his foe did fly Himself with his own hands he slew; Who e'er a greater madne...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL He claims it was precedent, but as an experienced judge, he knows better. Clearly, this is a ruling ...
KAY DALY He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.
BEN JONSON A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs.
RICHARD CASTLE He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER He who labours as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain ...
ERIC HOFFER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO

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SALVADOR DALí I shall be so brief that I have already finished
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SALVADOR DALí Footsteps are there to show us the progress we've made.
MIGUEL SALVADOR MENDOZA Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
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DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
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DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, ...
CONSTANTIN FRANCOIS DE CHASSEBEOUF DE VOLNEY When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,...
ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN (DE BUSSY) A new maxim is often a brilliant error.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
CHRETIEN-GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE MALESHERBES The human heart will never wrinkle.
MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I t...
CHRISTIAN DE DUVE Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning a...
MADAME DE STAEL