"When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality."
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"Music is my higher power"
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"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god."
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"Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power"
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"Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power."
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"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."
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"Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims"
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"But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain & overlook the old. Trust your emotion."
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"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."
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"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
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"I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly."
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"Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering."
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"Freedom exists only with power."
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"No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites."
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"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"
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"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."
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"Real power comes by empowering others."
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"Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them."
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"My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave."
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"Valor consists in the power of self recovery."
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