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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘power’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.” -Bob Dylan
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“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.” -Tony Robbins
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“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.” -Swami Vivekananda
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“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.” -George Meredith
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“The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.” -George Washington
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“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.” -Robert Frost
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“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn’t him. This is not him.” -Michael Jackson
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“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.” -Socrates
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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” -Aristotle
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“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.” -Ronald Reagan
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“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.” -Lao Tzu
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“Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.” -John F. Kennedy
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“Power and speed be hands and feet.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” -Carl Sagan
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“Power is not alluring to pure minds.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
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“What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?” -Khalil Gibran
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“It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.” -Wayne Dyer
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“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.” -Muhammad Ali
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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” -Epictetus
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“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.” -Charles Stanley
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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” -Joel Osteen
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“If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.” -Dalai Lama
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“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.” -Winston Churchill
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“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” -Alan Cohen
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“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” -Washington Irving
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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” -Jim Morrison
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“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” -Albert Einstein
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“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” -Lewis B. Smedes
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” -Viktor E. Frankl
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“Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other’s.” -Deborah Tannen
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“The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.” -Anita Hill
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“In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer – the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.” -A. J. P. Taylor
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“Every crisis offers you extra desired power.” -William Moulton Marston
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“There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” -Everett Dirksen
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“Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.” -Andrew Young
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“There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.” -Sophie Swetchine
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“Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.” -Carolyn Heilbrun
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“Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.” -Eric Sevareid
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“The law has no power over heroes.” -Charlotte Lennox
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“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” -Groucho Marx
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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.” -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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“The greatest power is not money power, but political power.” -Walter Annenberg
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“Power ought to serve as a check to power.” -Charles de Secondat
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“Power in America today is control of the means of communication.” -Theodore White
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“Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.” -Benjamin F. Wade
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“Prestige is the shadow of money and power.” -C. Wright Mills
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“Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.” -Charles Simmons
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“People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.” -Don DeLillo
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“The greatest power is often simple patience.” -E. Joseph Cossman
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“A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.” -Pierre Corneille
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“An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.” -Phaedrus
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“Women have to harness their power – its absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” -Cher
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“The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.” -David Ogilvy
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“Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.” -Alexis Carrel
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“I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.” -Oskar Schindler
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“Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.” -Nelson Rockefeller
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“Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.” -Catherine the Great
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“The only power you have is the word no.” -Frances McDormand
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“Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.” -Bill O’Reilly
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“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” -William Plomer
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“Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.” -Paul Harris
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“Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.” -Allen Klein
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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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“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.” -Andrew Carnegie
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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 purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.” -Aneurin Bevan
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“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.” -Alvin Toffler
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“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.” -Phillips Brooks
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“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.” -Arnold J. Toynbee
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“Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.” -Cesare Pavese
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“Power is dangerous unless you have humility.” -Richard J. Daley
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“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.” -Susan Sarandon
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“Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.” -Abigail Adams
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“Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.” -Denis Diderot
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“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.” -Georg Buchner
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“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.” -Booker T. Washington
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“Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.” -Alice Walker
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“Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” -Edmund Burke
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“Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.” -Donald Trump
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“But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.” -Alan Watts
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“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.” -Epicurus
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“Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.” -Edward Abbey
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“Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.” -Alfred A. Montapert
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“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.” -Honore de Balzac
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“My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.” -Andrew Jackson
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“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.” -John Muir
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“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.” -Stendhal
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“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” -William Wordsworth
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“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.” -Charles de Gaulle
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“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.” -Ayn Rand
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“You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.” -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” -Frederick Douglass
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“Power is the great aphrodisiac.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.” -Blaise Pascal
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“A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.” -Epictetus
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“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.” -Erich Fromm
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“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” -Peace Pilgrim
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“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” -Bruce Lee
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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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“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” -Aristotle
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“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.” -Victor Hugo
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