"These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power."
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"All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters."
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"Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world."
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"Life is a search after power."
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"To do nothing is in everyone's power."
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"A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope."
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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
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"Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest."
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"If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command."
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"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."
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"the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable."
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"At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight."
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"We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it."
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"There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period."
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"Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves."
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"Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so."
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"Even the least work done for others awakens the power within."
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"All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves."
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"All power is His and within His command."
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"Superhuman power is not strong enough."
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