Power

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  • I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • To be great is to be misunderstood.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • A small rock holds back a great wave.
        Homer   Best?
  • When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existance. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
        Iris Murdoch   Best?
  • The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Ability is nothing without opportunity.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
        Unknown   Best?
  • The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
        Beverly Sills   Best?
  • Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
        Ben Hecht   Best?
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, he marks-not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
        Grantland Rice   Best?
  • Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
        Ann Landers   Best?
  • I am certain there is too much certainy in the world.
        Michael Crichton   Best?
  • If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
        Niccollo Machavelli   Best?
  • A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
        Ayn Rand   Best?
  • I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
        Ellen DeGeneres   Best?
  • Remember that the evil which is now in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love.
        The Grand Duchess Olga of Russ   Best?
  • My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
        Somerset Maugham   Best?
  • Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
        Ruth Gordon   Best?
  • Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
        Proverb   Best?
  • Anger without power is folly.
        German Proverb   Best?
  • All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
        Saul Bellow   Best?
  • Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
        R. Buckminster Fuller   Best?
  • Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
        Kirk Brothers   Best?

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