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«Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie (Industrialist, Philanthropist) | About: Power | Keywords: acquired, affairs, assuring, immense, reveries
«If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.»
Author: Jesse Ventura (Governor) | About: Power | Keywords: locked, Minnesota
«If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim (Spiritual leader, Teacher) | About: Optimism, Power | Keywords: are, how, I Think I Do, negative, negatives, never, powerful, realized, think, think out, think over, think up, thought, thoughts, well thought out, would
«If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.»
Author: Yugoslavian Proverb | About: Authority, Men, Power | Keywords: authority
«In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton (Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker) | About: Power | Keywords: amounts, subsistence
«In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk (Journalist, Novelist, Satirist) | About: Power, Words
«In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | About: Excellence, Power, Sex | Keywords: fairly, sexes
«In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (President) | About: Past, Power | Keywords: back end, ended, foolishly, riding, sought, The Tiger, tiger
«In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are no subjugated.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker) | About: Power | Keywords: granted, precisely, present time, subjugate, subjugated, taken for granted, The State
«In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker) | About: Cruelty, Goodness, Love, Power, Pride | Keywords: connected, cruelty, cunning, retain
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