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"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."
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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
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"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."
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"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."
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"All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God."
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"Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;--obey!"
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"Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!"
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"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."
People


"One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights."
Rights


"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
Desire


"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."
Power


"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
Work


"We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."
God


"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."
Attention


"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
War


"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."
Technology


"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
Paradise
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