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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 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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"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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"power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression." »Malcolm X
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"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed." »Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power." »Unknown
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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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"power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous." »William Proxmire
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"power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous." »William Proxmire
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"The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone." »Margaret Mead
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"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power." »Peter McWilliams
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"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor." »Eric Sevareid
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"America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses." »Bryce Courtenay
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"power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." »John Lehman
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"power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat" »John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987
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"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose." »J. Martin Kohe
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"power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power." »Malcolm X
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"power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." »Lord Acton, 1887
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"Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex." »Katharine Graham
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