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"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
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"It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power."
"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?"
"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
"If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality."
"Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!"
"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."
"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."
"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."
"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself as against the saints who deny it."
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
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