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"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established."
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"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."
"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
"Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."
"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."
"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."
"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."
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"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."
"Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love."
"Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window."
"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"
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