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Or a powerless lover, watching with infinite compassion things God is unable to control or change?
Because I had lost my jaw, I could no longer form a seal, and therefore my tongue and all of my other vocal equipment was rendered powerless.
The good thing is that we are not powerless.
And as we try to understand this broad movement across the Arab world, we are not powerless.
But an idea is powerless if it stays inside of you.
What do we do when we feel powerless?
So what do the minds of the powerful versus the powerless look like?
There are a lot of differences between powerful and powerless people.
So I really struggled with this, and I have to say, having your identity taken from you, your core identity, and for me it was being smart, having that taken from you, there's nothing that leaves you feeling more powerless than that.
So I felt entirely powerless.
Only my friends supported me, but they were kids, just as powerless as I was.
I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.
In effect, a vicious cycle of fear, avoidance, mistrust and misunderstanding had been established, and this was a battle in which I felt powerless and incapable of establishing any kind of peace or reconciliation.
A common theme running through all of these comments online is this fundamental belief that we are powerless to do anything other than go to meetings and suffer through these poorly run meetings and live to meet another day.
But the truth is, we're not powerless at all.
Combined with the novel’s magical realism, this produces a sense of history as a downward spiral the characters seem powerless to escape.
This is the same for us when we help refugees, people displaced within their country by conflict, or stateless persons, I know many people, when they are confronted by overwhelming suffering, they feel powerless and they stop there.
They are thrown into situations where they are witness, but they are powerless to bring any change.
I was completely powerless to change anything in my life or people's perceptions of me.
Daedalus could only watch in horror as Icarus ascended higher and higher, powerless to change his son's dire fate.
We are therefore not powerless to solve it.
People feel powerless, and they are tired of not being heard.
Because without a decision we're left powerless.
They make the powerless feel powerful.
And then I started to think, OK, well now this thing is probably just laughing at me, because it hasn't left, and I probably just look like this impotent, powerless thing that couldn't get it to go away.
He wrote in his diary, "My will and reason were powerless against the imagination of a danger which had never been experienced."
And for the powerless in our communities, being able to connect to that is even more important.
And I couldn't help but think: these are the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, yet they see themselves as utterly powerless to influence the future.
Even the most sophisticated among us seem powerless to break this cycle.
We get angry in situations that are unpleasant, that feel unfair, where our goals are blocked, that could have been avoided, and that leave us feeling powerless.
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