"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

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"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

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Rhonda Byrne, Australian Author

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"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

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"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

Viktor E. Frankl, Austrian Psychologist

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"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

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"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."

Charles Simmons, American Author

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"Television has tremendous power over our lives."

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, American Celebrity

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"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."

John Quincy Adams, American President

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"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."

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"Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?"

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"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."

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"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."

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"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

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"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

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"Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?"

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"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way."

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"The power to do good is also the power to do harm."

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"And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?"

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