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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. – Hugh White	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it. – John Whitehead	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. – Elie Wiesel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. – Woodrow Wilson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies. – W. Wirt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party. – Mao Zedong	added by anonymous 14 years ago
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past. – Agathon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also – Lois McMaster Bujold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. – Thomas Bailey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine. – Martha Beck	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory. – Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. – Lydia M. Child	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. – James A. Garfield	added by anonymous 14 years ago
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. – Captain J. A. Hadfield	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits. – Heloise	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels – Theodor Herzl	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power. – Allegra Kent	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power. – Ninon de Lenclos	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience. – Barbara Mikkelson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. – Ezra Pound	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). – Faith Popcorn	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do – Ronnie Shakes	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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