"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

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"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

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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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"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"Influence can be the worst gun nowadays."

Alin Sav, Romanian Author

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"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

Saul Alinsky, American Activist

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

Emanuel Celler, American Politician

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"Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station."

Robbie Coltrane, Scottish Actor

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"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

W. H. Murray, Scottish Athlete

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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."

Sensitivity

"He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!"

Reality

"He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist."

Mortality

"Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift."

Mortality

"Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock."

Aesthetics

"Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?"

Biography

"I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin died. Those were the toughest years, I was alone with my children, I had to cope by myself. Complete poverty. You won't believe this, but nowadays when I look back, those are my happiest years."

Resilience

"Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest."

Philosophy

"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

Authorship

"He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and he falls asleep. That's how it happens that one fine day a person joins the tramps and turns into one of them."

Decline