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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Knowledge is power. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men in Great Place are thrice Servants Servants of the Sovereign or State Servants of Fame and Servants of Business It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. – Colin Wilson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. – John Burroughs	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes. – Alexander Hamilton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. – John W. Gardner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. – Arthur C. Clarke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. – Joseph Farrell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. – Lord Acton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. – Epictetus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. – Epictetus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford) – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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