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The Powers That Be

«Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.»
«Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.»
«Nirvana? That's the place where the powers that be and their friends hang out.»
«Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.»
«All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.»
«Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.»
«Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.»
«Nothing external to you has any power over you.»
«It is through being wounded that power grows and can, in the end, become tremendous»
«Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle»