A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Power Quotes

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

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The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

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All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.

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Will power defeats all powers

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

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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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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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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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Power educates the potentate.

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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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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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Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.

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It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

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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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Life is a search after power.

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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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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

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If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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