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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power
Lord Acton

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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Power
Abigail Adams

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A friend in power is a friend lost.
Power
Henry Brooks Adams

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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
President
Henry Brooks Adams

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Power
John Adams

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The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Al-Nuri

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
Power
Withrop Aldrich

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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Power
Saul Alinsky

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It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
Focus
James Allen

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Order is power.
Order
Henri Frederic Amiel

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
Power
Henri Frederic Amiel

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When we blame, we give away our power.
Blame
Greg Anderson

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It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
Thoughts and Thinking
Hans Christian Anderson

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Power tires only those who do not have it.
Power
Giulio Andreotti

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Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
Riches
Jean Anouilh

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When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Blame
Dr. Robert Anthony

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
Power
Arabian Proverb

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Teachers and Teaching
Aristotle

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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Discipline
Aristotle

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A word after a word after a word is power.
Power
Margaret Atwood

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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Soul
Marcus Aurelius

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Knowledge
Francis Bacon

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Knowledge is power.
Knowledge
Francis Bacon

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Desire
Francis Bacon

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Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
Media
Stanley Baldwin

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun