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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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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

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

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A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

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Power is the recognition of necessity.

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The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

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To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

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more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

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