961 private quotes tagged power

“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.” — George Orwell

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“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” — Thomas Paine

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“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.” — Steven Wright

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“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” — George Orwell

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“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.” — Voltaire

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“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.” — Plutarch

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“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” — Thomas Paine

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“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.” — Bertrand Russell

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“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” — James Madison

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“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.” — James Madison

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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” — Aldous Huxley

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“No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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