"Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor."
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"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."
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"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."
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"The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique."
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"You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both."
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"Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate."
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"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."
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"Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood."
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"From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door."
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"International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents."
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"The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently."
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"The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis."
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"Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant."
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"For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade."
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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."
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"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."
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"O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent."
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"Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it."
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"Personal power is the ability to take action."
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"A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production."
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