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potency
«If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.»
«[Monty] Woolley reduced the nurse in The Man Who Came to Dinner to the potency of a pound of wet Kleenex. It was probably the best thing that had happened to the art of the insult since the Medicis stopped talking in the 16th century.»
«The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet.»
«Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them»
«Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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