"Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet."

Power, Satire, Wisdom, Irony, Knowledge

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"Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet."

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"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"...without money you cannot fight money."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Power, Fear, Loss

"When you win, the rules change, and you find you've lost."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Power, Rules, Change, Loss

"The soul fire determines the strength of the spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Power, Control, Force, Violence

"The shield of faith is sword to conquer every fear."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Without craziness, there is no courage."

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"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father."

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"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."

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"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

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"He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living spirit and light within him, and avenged himself on the world by enriching it with this record of his own transcendental ideal."

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"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

"...without money you cannot fight money."

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

"When you win, the rules change, and you find you've lost."

"The soul fire determines the strength of the spirit."

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

"The shield of faith is sword to conquer every fear."

"Without craziness, there is no courage."

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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father."

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."

"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."

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"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."

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"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."