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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
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Publilius Syrus
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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Henry Brooks Adams
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
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Bible
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A word after a word after a word is power.
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Margaret Atwood
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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
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Cotvos
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Abigail Adams
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Seneca
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Margaret Thatcher
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By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.
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Herrich
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
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Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Milton Friedman
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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Horace Mann
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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
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Archimedes
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He has the power who the majority believe in.
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Raupach
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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
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Seneca
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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
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Thomas Fuller
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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Proverb
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Roland Barthes
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I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
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Edmund Burke
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I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.
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Nikos Kazantzakis
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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
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Margaret Thatcher
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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William Hazlitt
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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
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Arabian Proverb
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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
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Sarah Boseley
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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Seneca
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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Laurence J. Peter
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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Iron hand in a velvet glove.
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Charles V
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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
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Margaret Thatcher
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Let them hate, so long as they fear.
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Accius
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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
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William Shakespeare
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Epictetus
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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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Hans J. Morgenthau
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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
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Gloria Steinem
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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John Dryden
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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Seneca
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Abraham Lincoln
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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
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Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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Sydney Smith
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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
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Henri Frederic Amiel
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Buckminster Fuller
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Personal power is the ability to take action.
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Anthony Robbins
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Mao Zedong
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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John Adams
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