"In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning."

Power, Learning

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"In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning."

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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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"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"For a great willpower, no road has length!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

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"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."

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"Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price."

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"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore."

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"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

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"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves."

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"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario."

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"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world."

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"To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light."

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"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."

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