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"Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven." »Edward De Bono
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"Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well." »A Bartlett Giamatti
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"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome." »Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
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"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." »Susan Polis Schutz
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"People are more easily led than driven." »David Harold Fink
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"I'm as pure as the driven slush." »Tallulah Bankhead
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." »David Brin, on power and corruption
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power." »David Brin
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"My heart is pure as the driven slush." »Tallulah Bankhead
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"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape." »John Lancaster Spalding
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"Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign." »Frank Crane
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"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life." »Brigham Young
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"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day." »Abraham Lincoln
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"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us." »John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.
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"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us." »John F. Kennedy
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"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." »Hyman Rickover
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"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven." »Martin Luther
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"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of." »Ellen Goodman
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"The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions." »Adam Smith
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"Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are." »Nancy Lopez
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"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular." »Edward R. Murrow
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"The forces of the Power Cycles work over time to distributes the power and wealth among nations. Every nation and every political party must go through the cycles of expansion and contraction. This is true for all past, current and future powers. The only difference is that this power cycle got accelerated tremendously with the introduction of the Internet and global communications." »Med Jones
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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple." »Steve Jobs
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"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice." »Ayn Rand
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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression." »Malcolm X
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