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"I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?"
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"You create your world with your thoughts."
"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."
"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"
"Television has tremendous power over our lives."
"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."
"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."
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"I hate books they teach us only to talk about what we do not know."
"They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doctrine of the Koran, burn them anyway, for they are superfluous.' Our learned men have cited this reasoning as the height of absurdity. However, suppose Gregory the Great was there instead of Omar and the Gospel instead of the Koran. The library would still have been burned, and that might well have been the finest moment in the life of this illustrious pontiff."
"The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake."
"There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good."
"A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need."
"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."
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