"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."

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"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

George Orwell, British Author

Power, Equality, Insanity, Control

"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Power, Age, Sex

"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."

Horace, Roman Poet

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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."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Power, Destruction, Reflection, Truth

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Power, War, Communism, Corruption

"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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Power, Secrets, Adultery, World

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Power, Blind, Man, Mind

"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."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Power, War, Lies, Spirit

"Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old, so clear and strong that he could slip his warm hand in mine, he could lift me in theair, yes, lift my body, but I refused him. I turned my back on him. I told him, You go back to the hell from which you came. And I used my power to fight him."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Power, Strength, Vision, Spirit

"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Power, People, Yesterday

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"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."

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"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."

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"It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble."

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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

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"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."

Loss

"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."

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"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."

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"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."

"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."

"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."

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"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."

"The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool."

"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."

"It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble."

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."

"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."

"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."