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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.
I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.