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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

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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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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

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Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.

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Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

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An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

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The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

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In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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Superhuman power is not strong enough.

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When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

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International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

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Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

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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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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

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Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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