"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."

Power, Effect, Poison

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Wolf, Lion, Mockery

"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Power, Master, Control, Freedom

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Fear, Courage, Caution

"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Mind, Heart, Soul, Life

"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Power, Gospel, Church, Change

"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Power, Knowledge, Control, Books

"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Power, Money, Lie, Problem, Life

"Most powerful is he who never cared for power."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Power, Care, Never, Most

"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Power, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Power, Being, Miracles

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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Thought

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Friendship

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

Education

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."

Faith

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

Education

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."

Man

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

"Most powerful is he who never cared for power."

"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

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"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."