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«What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
available, become available, state of mind
«When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power»
Author: Alston Chase
| About:
Knowledge,
Politics,
Power,
Truth
| Keywords:
advocacy, confused, political power, pursuit, quest, quest for, reduced, The Quest, The Search
«What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful»
Author: Blaine Lee
| About:
Learning,
Power
| Keywords:
actually, circumstances, determines, increasingly, powerless
«When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.»
Author: Jimi Hendrix
(Composer, Guitarist, Singer)
| About:
Love,
Peace,
Power
| Keywords:
overcomes, Power of Love, The Power Of Love
«Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.»
«Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Leadership,
Mankind,
Power,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
burdened, enjoys, essence, forces, moved, moves, of the essence, outer, trapped
«What power has love but forgiveness?»
«When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Poetry,
Power
| Keywords:
area, arrogance, cleanses, concern, corrupts, diversities, diversity, limitations, narrows, reminds, richness
«When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Power
| Keywords:
deprives, destructive, extravagant, honorable, innocent, mouths, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, substance, usurer, violent, votes
«When you strike at a king, you must kill him»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
kill, king, strike, strike out
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