"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

Power, Knowledge, Character, Respect

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"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

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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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"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

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"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

Power, Choice, Glory, Responsibility

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

Voltaire, French Writer

Power, Religion, Reason

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"All children have creative power."

Brenda Ueland, American Writer

Power, Children

"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."

Anna Sewell, English Writer

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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

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"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

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"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."

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"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."

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"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

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"Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."

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"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."

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"To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is."

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"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

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"Real living is living for others."

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