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| Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. (John Lehman Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987) |
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| If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? (Harry Shearer) |
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| You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! (Amy Tan) |
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| Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. (Elie Wiesel) |
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| Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. (Seneca) |
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| The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. (Joseph Farrell) |
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| The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. (Henrik Ibsen) |
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| Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. (Dr. Thomas Fuller Gnomologia 1732) |
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| Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. (A. Bartlett Giamatti President of Yale University) |
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| Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. (James A. Garfield) |
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| We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. (Stephen Vincent Benet Litany for Dictatorships 1935) |
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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. (Charles Caleb Colton Lacon 1825) |
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| The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. (Baltasar Gracian) |
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| Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. (Malcolm X Malcolm X Speaks 1965) |
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| We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. (Stewart L. Udall commencement address Dartmouth College June 13 1965) |
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| The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. (Lord Macaulay) |
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| Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. (Woodrow Wilson letter to Mary A. Hulbert September 21 1913) |
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| It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. (David Brin) |
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| Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Lord Acton) |
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| One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. (John Stuart Mill) |
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| If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? (Lois McMaster Bujold) |
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