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