"If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world."

Power, Victory, Body, Exercise

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"If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world."

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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."

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"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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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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"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."

Anna Sewell, English Writer

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"It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free."

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"Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana."

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"If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free."

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"Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end."

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