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

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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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Voltaire, French Writer

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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

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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."

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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

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

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"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

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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."

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"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."

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"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."

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"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."

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"Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes."

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