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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
Desire
Walter Lippmann

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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
Miracles
John Locke

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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
Self-control
James Russell Lowell

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To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
Contentment
George Macdonald

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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Power
Harold Macmillan

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Liberty
James Madison

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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
Power
Malcolm X

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Power
Horace Mann

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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Power
Orison Swett Marden

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Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
Listening
John Marshall

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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
Taxes and Taxation
John Marshall

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Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
Crisis
William Moulton Marston

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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
Ideas
Ken Mason

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The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
Arms Race
Sir Ronald Mason

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Beware of the man who rises to powerFrom one suspender.
Uncategorised
Edgar Lee Masters

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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
Desire
John Mcdonald

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
Revenge
John Milton

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.
Fear
Moorish Proverb

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Power
Hans J. Morgenthau

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person
Knowledge
Ethel Watts Mumford

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Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.
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Napoleon III

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Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Punishment
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Paradise
Friedrich Nietzsche

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Goodness
Friedrich Nietzsche

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You can't underestimate the power of fear.
Fear
Patricia Nixon

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun