"One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care."

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"One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care."

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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."

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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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"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"The power to investigate is a great public trust."

Emanuel Celler, American Politician

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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

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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"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

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"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."

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"This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure."

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"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."

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"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

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"It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch."

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