961 private quotes tagged power

“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.” — Josh Billings

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“Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?” — Khalil Gibran

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“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Power is not alluring to pure minds.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.” — George Eliot

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“Power and speed be hands and feet.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.” — Blaise Pascal

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“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.” — Akhenaton

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“I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” — Carl Sagan

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“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.” — Plato

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“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.” — John Muir

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“Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.” — Joan Didion

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“Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.” — Muhammad Ali

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“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.” — David Bowie

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“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” — Bo Bennett

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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” — Stephen Covey

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“True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.” — John W. Gardner

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