"Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation."
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"If one has got power, one must manifest it in action."
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"With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world."
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"To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]"
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"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"
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"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches."
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"One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way."
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"Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow."
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"Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control."
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"No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy."
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"Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action."
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"In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime."
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"Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power."
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"The only limits of power are the bounds of belief."
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"All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star."
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"True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything."
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"All human power is a compound of time and patience."
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"I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it."
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"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands."
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"Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum."
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