"The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power."
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"There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation."
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"How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power."
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"I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place."
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"Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist."
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"I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it."
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"He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him"
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"Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand."
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"Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others."
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"The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination."
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"It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it."
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"You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness."
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"I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier."
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"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?"
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"The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen."
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"Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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"It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We do not believe that a tide rises and falls behind every man which can float the British Empire like a chip, if he should ever harbor it in his mind."
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"Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible."
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"It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterredby such abstractions as time and space, height and depth, weight and hardness, but shall indeed be the lord of creation."
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"Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom."
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