“ Fat is a way of saying "no" to powerlessness and self-denial. ”
- Susie Orbach- Copy
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“ It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail. ”
- Lech Walesa- Copy
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“ Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
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“ The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
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“ Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. ”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger- Copy
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“ Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. ”
- Martin Seligan- Copy
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“ Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice. ”
- Peter Benenson- Copy
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“ What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness. ”
- Robert Lindner- Copy
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“ Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This… is a precious gift. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
- 122
“ Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
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“ I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope — an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. ”
- John Fowles- Copy
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“ In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. ”
- P. L. Berger- Copy
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“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. ”
- Joseph Roux- Copy
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“ The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations. ”
- Johan August Strindberg- Copy
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“ The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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