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| There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. |
| Woodrow T. Wilson |
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| There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together. |
| Josh Billings |
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| Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. |
| Eric Hoffer |
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| Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. |
| Edmund Burke |
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| Those who seek power are not worthy of that power. |
| Plato |
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| Through the power which we win over the forces of nature we get also a gruesome kind of power over our fellow human beings. - Out of My Life and Thoughts. |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary. |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image |
| Nelson Mandela |
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| We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. |
| Jean de la Bruyere |
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| When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. |
| Rudyard Kipling |
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| You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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