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“Knowledge is power.”
— Francis Bacon
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“To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”
— Aldous Huxley
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“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”
— Plato
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“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
— Plato
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“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.”
— Winston Churchill
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“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
— Voltaire
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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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“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
— Tony Robbins
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“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.”
— Ayn Rand
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“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
— Voltaire
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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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“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.”
— Josh Billings
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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.”
— Akhenaton
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“Power is not alluring to pure minds.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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