"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."

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"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."

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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

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"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."

Love

"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."

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"I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution."

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"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."

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"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."

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"You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right."

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"There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man."

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"God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?"

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"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?"

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"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."

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