"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."
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"In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good."
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"There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data."
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"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
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"When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat."
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"Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint."
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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."
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"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."
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"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
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"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."
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"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."
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"The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power."
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"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock."
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"Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of."
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"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established."
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"Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum."
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"Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery."
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"The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us."
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
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"Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it."
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