"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

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"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

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"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

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"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power."

Michelle Shocked, American Musician

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"Influence can be the worst gun nowadays."

Alin Sav, Romanian Author

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"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"The power to investigate is a great public trust."

Emanuel Celler, American Politician

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"He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be."

Alexandra Bracken, American Writer

Power, Identity, Loss, Self, Transformation

"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Power, Success, Morality, Crime

"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move."

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"O earth, what changes hast thou seen!"

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"We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed."

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"By blood a king, in heart a clown."

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"He makes no friends who never made a foe."

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"Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts."

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"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times."

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"Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love."

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