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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aelius Aurelius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes. – James Arthur Baldwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. – Erastus Flavel Beadle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. – Alexander Graham Bell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. – Stephen Vincent Benet	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All power in human hands is liable to be abused. – Sarah Bernhardt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. – Mary Bertone	added by anonymous 14 years ago
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past. – Ambrose Gwinett Bierce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche. – Victoria Billings	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. – Jim	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds. – Black Elk	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined. – Blessing Irish	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are. – Ludwig Boerne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure – Nicolas Boileau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. – Edward De Bono	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. – Phyllis Bottome	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. – Nadia Boulanger	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks. – Carol Botwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. – Fawn M. Brodie	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine. – Henry Thomas Buckle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. – John Calhoun	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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