"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."
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"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."
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"What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking."
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"It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished."
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"Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it."
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"You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships."
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"There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist."
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"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
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"Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power."
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"Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change."
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"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
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"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
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"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers."
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"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
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"The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit."
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"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits."
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"The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties."
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"Do the thing and you will have the power."
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"Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration."
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"Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power."
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