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«There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Power, Talent
«The most obvious and condescending tell-tale sign that manipulation is taking place is that no one takes responsibility for the actions of the administration, it?s always some other department who is to blame and never the people who have authority, it?s always some nameless foot-soldiers, a ?few bad apples,? when we all know that such excuses don?t hold water, we know who gave the order for soldiers to engage in the abhorrent techniques of torture, we know who told subordinates in the corporation(s) to ?fudge the numbers? and ?be creative,? we know full well who makes these decisions. President Truman said, ?The buck stops here,? now the buck effectively floats over many people never stopping anywhere, so there?s no one to blame.»
Author: Teresa Stover | About: Authority, Power
«There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.»
«There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.»
Author: Dennis Prager | About: Arguments, Persuasion, Power | Keywords: vituperation
«The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny»
«There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.»
«The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.»
Author: James Allen (Statesman) | About: Knowledge, Power, Prophecy, Wisdom | Keywords: Prophecies
«There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.»
«There is no knowledge that is not power»
«Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.»