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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."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"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."
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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."
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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!"
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."
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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."
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"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."
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"Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power."
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"Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare."
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"Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind."
Influence
"No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent."
Power
"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
Intelligence
"He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled."
Life
"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven."
God
"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."
Experience
"Every man is a volume if you know how to read him."
Man
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
Conflict
"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages."
Life
"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do."
Character
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