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In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

Aleister Crowley

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. George H. W. Bush

Purpose, Principle, Engaged

Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth. Ellen G. White

Love, Pure, Fruitful

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams

Government, Religious

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. Margaret Fuller

Woman, Fact, Purely

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. Aleister Crowley

Absence, Most, Worthless

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. Rene Descartes

Trust, Never, Senses

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. - Ludwig van Beethoven

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven

Fate, Never, Certainly

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. Indra Devi

Sky, Mind, Which

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. Thomas Paine

Strength, Power, Consists

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. P. G. Wodehouse

Funny, Gun, Depends

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. Donna Tartt

Concrete, Concentrating

The way you become divine is to become wholly human. John Shelby Spong

Way, Human, Divine

Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man. John Wycliffe

Trust, Other, Beware

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. Franz Kafka

Feet, Wait, Still

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature. Ada Lovelace

Nature, Analytical, Occupy

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. Hannah Arendt

Always, Liberate, Subject

The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Will, Deepening, Tendency

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation. Eric Liu

Accordingly, Boomers, Given

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. Epictetus

May, Always, Contest

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. Charles Dudley Warner

Conformity, Should, Half

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Robert Louis Stevenson

Motivational, Some, Devoted

The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally have occurred had it never existed nor even been thought of at all. Ada Lovelace

Thought, Been, Analytical

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one. Ezra Cornell

Expanding, Laborious

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum. Wyndham Lewis

Country, United States

If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Happy, Well-Being, Want

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them. Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Other, Been, Always

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