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| The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. |
| Edmund Burke |
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| The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action. |
| D.H. Lawrence |
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| The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. |
| Mark Twain |
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| The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. |
| Victor Hugo |
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| The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. |
| Ayn Rand |
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| The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. |
| Eric Hoffer |
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| The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit |
| Jonathan Swift |
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| The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. |
| Walter Scott |
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| The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. |
| Anthony J. D'Angelo |
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| The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. |
| Henry Kissinger |
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| The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power. |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. |
| Winston Churchill |
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