"Properly, we should read for power."
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"The more you are talked about the less powerful you are."
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"Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood."
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"From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power."
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"Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good."
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"The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices."
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"It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations."
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"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."
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"But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us."
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"the possession of power brings on madness."
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"From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes."
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"In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live."
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"Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded."
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"To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil."
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"Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed."
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"Greatness knows itself."
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"Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt."
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"I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered."
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"Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood."
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"As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes."
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