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All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
Francis Thompson
Power
Flower
Other
Thou
All Things
Immortal
Troubling
Without
Stir
Linked
Canst
Far
Each
Star
Near
Things
People have to be armed to have power, you see.
Fred Hampton
You
People
Power
See
Armed
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Truth
World
Power
Humane
Destroy
Possession
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Magnanimity
Over
Always
Sensibility
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blame
Power
Judgment
Our
Later
More
Only
Over
Underestimated
Praise
Praised
Causes
Undeserved
Than
Being
Reason
Exposed
Conscience
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
George MacDonald
Power
Able
Without
Want
Riches
It's easier to blame the person with less power.
Gloria Steinem
Blame
Power
Easier
Person
Less
Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Attitude
God
Gratitude
Acceptance
Meekness
Power
Recognition
Spirit
Oneself
Implies
Beyond
Greater
Opposed
His
Self-Sufficiency
Commandments
Acknowledgement
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
Power
Lying
Those
Pick
Know
Make
Up
Revolutionaries
Revolutions
Then
Who
Street
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry Adams
Men
Power
Victim
Self
Sort
Effect
Ends
Tumor
Aggravation
Publicity
Sympathies
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George
Wealth
Power
Every
Destroyed
Has-Been
Distribution
Civilization
Tendency
Previous
Been
Unequal
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Henry George
Man
Light
Power
He
Becomes
May
Influence
Wherever
Placed
Who
Whoever
Thinks
Imagine
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
Great
Power
Aphrodisiac
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida Tarbell
Truth
Man
Dangerous
Power
Moral
Must
Rate
More
He
Idea
Make
Accept
Does
Tariff
Than
Fixing
Refuses
Should
Working
Who
Even
Position
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin
Attitude
Good
Day
Great
Power
Control
Harness
Secret
Our
Our Lives
Bad
Paramount
Attitudes
Hours
Importance
Know
Force
How
Working
Twenty-Four
Lives
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jackie Kennedy
Women
World
Power
Those
Kinds
Bed
Want
Who
Two
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.
Jim Hightower
Political
Challenge
Power
Own
Control
Live
Approach
Harmony
Corporate
Liberalism
Destinies
Distinguishes
Out
Classic
Seeks
Economic
Excess
Concentrated
Empower
Always
Been
Trying
American
Movement
Order
Which
Regulate
Orthodoxy
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy
Best
History
Generation
World
Power
Make
The History Of
Mankind
Last
Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern.
John McCain
Political
Will
Power
Important
Party
National
Few
Our
Minorities
Seem
Prevent
Never
Never Stop
How
Govern
Doing
Impose
Were
Exist
Campaigns
Stop
Anything
Convinced
Meant
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'
John Ortberg
Politics
Power
Narcissism
Control
Our
About
Divide
Tendency
Issues
Goes
Human
After
Race
Them
Us
Human Race
Largely
Right
Need
Core
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn
Happiness
Love
You
True Happiness
Will
Power
Find
Never
True
Over
Whenever
Love You
Choose
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
Ken Blanchard
Life
Experience
My Life
Giving
Power
Own
Energy
Believe
Back
Way
Way Life
About
Give
My Own
More
Giving Back
Absolutely
Had
Blessings
Works
Away
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
Louise Slaughter
Abuse Of Power
Ethics
Power
Independent
Open
Abuse
House
Majority
Without
Accountable
Cannot
Process
Stand
Function
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
Mahatma Gandhi
Great
Man
Power
Destiny
Only
Great Power
Allowed
He
True
Supposed
Make
Partly
Maker
His
Far
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X
Face
Power
Back
More
Only
More Power
Never
Step
Takes
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria Montessori
Education
Saying
Giving
Power
We Cannot
Through
Observation
Observe
Observers
Senses
Cannot
Them
Procured
Create
Means
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French
Love
You
Love Is
Yourself
Mind
Insanity
Power
Lose
Think
Ancient
Ancient Greeks
Rational
Knew
Delusion
Taking
Over
Self-Destruction
Well
Greeks
Straight
Lucid
Even
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