"There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing."

Power, Restraint, Choice, Strength

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"There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing."

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"There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing."

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"You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."

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"Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home."

Perspective

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Family

"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

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"When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall."

"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."

"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."

"Positive life, positive action."

"As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it."

"One of the man's major purposes is to have dominion over the earth, in the same way as God hasdominion over the universe."

"You can break through every barrier with persistent effort."

"You can conquer any mountain with faith, hope and courage."

"But you - women like you are dangerous- ominous " take care, Love " men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity..."

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"You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."

"Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried."

"He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves."

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"Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home."

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"The way I tell it, he says to Fitzwilliam, you would think that the blow on the head had improved him. That he actually set out to get it. That every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time."