“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”
— Indira Gandhi
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There is only one way to happiness
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
— Epictetus
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No emperor has the power to dictate
“No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.”
— Friedrich Schiller
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Almost all first ladies have had tremendous
“Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.”
— Dee Dee Myers
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries
“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.”
— Hannah Arendt
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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
— William James
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I only wish that ordinary people had
“I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.”
— Socrates
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People who are in power make their
“People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.”
— Don DeLillo
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A reform is a correction of abuses;
“A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.”
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Where love rules, there is no will
“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
— Carl Jung
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