"Power without abuse loses its charm."

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"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

George Orwell, British Author

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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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"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."

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"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."

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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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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."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

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"Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows."

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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."

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