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"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power."
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"When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall."

"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."

"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."

"As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it."

"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."
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"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think."

"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."

"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."

"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."

"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."

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."

"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

"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."
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