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1 " You have dwelt overmuch upon pain. Pain is a swift distress; it ends and is forgotten. Without memory and fear pain is nothing, a contradiction to be heeded, a warning to be taken. Without pain what would life become? Pain is the master only of craven men. It is in man's power to rule it. "
― H.G. Wells , The Undying Fire
2 " It is not by man's power that you are here, but by a greater Power. That Power will stay with you. "
― Lena Karynn Tesla ,
3 " At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second. "
― Leo Tolstoy , War and Peace
4 " By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. "
5 " What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. "
― C.S. Lewis , The Abolition of Man
6 " God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. "
― Ayn Rand
7 " The values of democracy, brotherhood, and freedom that constitute the building blocks of American society are also shared by Israeli society, together with the faith in man's power and ability to change and influence his surroundings. "
8 " The imagination is man's power over nature. "
― Wallace Stevens
9 " But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. "
