Mind is the great lever of all things.
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
The pen is the lever that moves the world.
911 changed everything. We lose more Americans every year drowning in the bathtub than through terrorism. But terrorism has been used as a lever to frighten people, pass legislation, sound tough and coerce us into giving away our rights in pursuit of phantom problems.
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.
Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.
The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause. . . The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.
