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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Patience
Epictetus

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.
Cities and City Life
Christopher Fieldes

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To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Jane Fonda

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Power
Harry Emerson Fosdick

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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Motivation
John W. Foster

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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
Punishment
Michel Foucault

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Love
Emmet Fox

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None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
Arrogance
French Proverb

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Power
Milton Friedman

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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Power
Milton Friedman

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Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.
Taxes and Taxation
Shelby Friedman

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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Purpose
Erich Fromm

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Our power is in our ability to decide.
Power
Buckminster Fuller

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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Will and Will Power
Thomas Fuller

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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
Power
William Gaddis

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Power
John Kenneth Galbraith

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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Adaptability
Mahatma Gandhi

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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
Happiness
John W. Gardner

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
Work, Hard
James A. Garfield

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Silence
Charles De Gaulle

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Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Arms Race
Hermann Goering

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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Dreams
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Power
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Passion
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
Blush
St. Gregory The Great

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