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It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

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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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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural 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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Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

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Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

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

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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

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In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

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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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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

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

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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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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

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

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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

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