"Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity."
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"If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you."
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"A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind."
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"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."
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"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."
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"The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin - and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost."
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"Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power."
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"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding"
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"All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power."
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"The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
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"All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one."
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"When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away."
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"Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral."
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"Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power."
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"There is no power without justice."
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"When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary."
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"The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world."
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"Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there."
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"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance."
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"Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much."
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