"I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in."
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"Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power."
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"There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication."
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"Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master."
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"Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power."
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"Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive."
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"Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others."
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"Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority."
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"Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world."
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"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."
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"In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting."
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"It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight."
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"The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty."
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"The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends."
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"There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree."
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"You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate."
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"Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!"
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"Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace."
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"Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power."
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"The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life."
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