“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.”
— Talib Kweli
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“For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.”
— James Buchan
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“Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.”
— Edward Abbey
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“There is energy and power in a crisis.”
— Andrew Cuomo
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“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.”
— Booker T. Washington
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“It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.”
— Eric Hoffer
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“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”
— Robert Frost
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“Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.”
— Charles Simmons
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“We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.”
— Jean de la Bruyere
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“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.”
— Simone Weil
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