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Power Quotes
"The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen."
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"If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one."
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"You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house."
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"The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do."
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"Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it."
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"You will only attract what you think of."
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"I have more influence now than when I had the power."
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"Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages."
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"A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men."
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"In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence."
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"YOUR GREATER ANIMALThey say that if you areEver confronted byA lion or bear,To never act scared.Instead act likeYou are the greater animalAnd that they'reThe hareThat you are aboutTo tear.This has beenProvenAnd compared.This is how presidentsAre lovedAnd feared.Each one of us has an animalWithin usThat is armed withMental,Physical orSpiritual giftsThat could shoot spearsThrough the air.So next timeYou are confronted inA fight that seems unfair,Just remember the lion and the bear.MAGNIFYYour greater animalAnd all that feel your magnificenceWill quickly step awayAnd disappear."
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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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"Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment."
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"Self care, self love. Self esteem, self confidence."
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"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
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"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
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"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."
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"Self-esteem, self confidence."
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"Self-confidence and self-will are strength for sacred accomplishments."
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"The mind of a soul is beyond another's imagination."
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"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
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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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"Push, push. Push harder!"
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"If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there."
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"You need power only when you want to do something harmful. Otherwise, love is enough."
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"Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have."
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"You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire."
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"When thou goest to woman take thy whip."
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"Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness."
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"But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."
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"The powerful have no conscience."
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"Connor couldn't be sure, but he thought he heard him mumble, 'First Dean, then McCall. These boys are dropping like flies."
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"The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong."
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