"Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions."
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"A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight."
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"Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness."
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"Power is the most persuasive rhetoric."
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"Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power."
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"The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation."
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"To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian."
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"Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power."
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"Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love."
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"When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist."
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"Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over."
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"In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts."
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"Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery."
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"Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin."
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"The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape."
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"I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me."
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"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality."
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"Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting."
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"Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
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"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."
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