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A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed. |
Aristotle |
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Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have |
Saul Alinsky |
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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the ind |
Albert Einstein |
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. |
Aristotle |
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Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose |
Stephen R. Covey |
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Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet |
Mark Twain |
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Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. |
Rene Descartes |
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Excessive power sees power beyond its power |
Seneca |
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He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. |
Adolf Hitler |
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He is most powerful who has power over himself |
Seneca |
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I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun |
Jane Austen |
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. |
Edmund Burke |
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