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• The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Perseverance, Determination

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8022, Delphi Classics

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• I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

  Prince Charles

  Determination, Littles, Helping

  "Rita Cosby Live & Direct", www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2005.

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• You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I would have thought.. I don't see any reason why that should suddenly disappear now that he has control of both houses.

  Chris Corrigan

  Determination, Government, House

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• Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Time, Moving

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• The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Powerful, Badass

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• Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

  Octavio Paz

  Lying, Technology, Reality

  1967 Alternating Current.

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• There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Two

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• And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

  John Milton

  Revenge, May, Assembling

  John Milton (1850). “Paradise Lost”, p.23

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• Freedom exists only with power.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Freedom

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• Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

  Robert Collier

  Mind, Desire, Nucleus

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

  George Eliot

  Sports, Ignorance, Knowledge

  George Eliot (1876). “Daniel Deronda”, p.38

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• Knowledge is only potential power.

  Napoleon Hill

  Knowledge

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.57, Penguin

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• Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Understanding, Lightning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1880). “Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”

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• O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Army, Perfect

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.335, NYU Press

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• Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power reduced to a science. Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.

  Lucy Parsons

  Struggle, Moving, Voice

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• He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

  Mary Howitt

  Flower

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• Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Abuse, Remorse

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34

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• You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Venice, Unemployment

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]

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• Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Genius, Talent

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.356

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• He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

  Charles Kingsley

  Sarcastic, Men, Common Sense

  Charles Kingsley (1855). “Westward ho!: The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth”, p.20

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• Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Eye, Heaven, Delight

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• What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Memories, Voice, Over You

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “The Ages of Chaos”, p.38, Penguin

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• That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Overcoming, Cowardice, Incorrigible

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.34

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• The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mean, Winning, Victory

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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• Power educates the potentate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Educate

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.17

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