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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

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Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.

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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

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The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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