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Power
«Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.»
«Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine»
Author: Ernest Rutherford
(Chemist)
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Atoms,
Power
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atom, expects, moonshine, The Atom, transformation, transformations
«And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
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Power
| Keywords:
Absolute Power, all too, concentration, concentration of power, corrupts, gangster, gangsters, mentality, proven
«Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have»
«Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Anger,
Power
| Keywords:
angriest, angry, easy, power, purpose, The Right Time, the right way, within
«Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.»
Author: Jean de La Fontaine
(Poet)
| About:
Power,
Trust
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, animated, animates, entrust, entrusted, entrusting, entrusts, if not, prince
«'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.»
«All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.»
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
(Author, Cartoonist)
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Power
| Keywords:
All I Want, bed, unlimited, warm
«All human power is a compound of time and patience.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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Power,
Time
| Keywords:
compound, compounding, compounds
«And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I would be absolute; and who but I: now, he that is absolute, can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes, can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Power