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Power Quotes
"To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution."
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"Mmm. Sebastian moaned. 'It's so delicious. He laughed then. 'It's not the Poisonous Desert; it's the Oreo Desert. He scooped up handfuls of dirt and stones and funneled it into his mouth. He licked his palms, his teeth grinding against rock.'Did the plant scramble his brains? Firen asked, her lips twitching just a smidgen.'The plant's poison makes you delusional, Gabriella informed as Egnatious and Firen yanked Sebastian to his feet. 'He'll probably be a bit Looneyville for a while."
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"Your need to feel significant will never be met, until you can conquer your fear and manage your focus."
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"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes."
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"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."
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"Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself."
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"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects."
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"Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery."
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"I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be."
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"Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery."
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"Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned."
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"He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace."
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"We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it."
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"The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn."
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"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose."
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"It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can't refuse."
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"Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."
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"The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down."
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"If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves."
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"The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens."
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"He had never conceived of a summons... so leonine, splendid and commanding, a voice that could grasp him as it were, by the roots of his hair and haul him up from the level on which he existed."
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"A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously."
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"He is a good and a great man; but he forgets, pitilessly, the feelings and claims of little people, in pursuing his own large views. It is better, therefore, for the insignificant to keep out of his way, lest, in his progress, he should trample them down."
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"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power."
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"If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power."
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"Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle."
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"A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement."
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"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."
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"In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power."
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