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Letter "P" » power
«Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
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absolute, absolutely, absolutes, Absolute Power, corrupting, corrupts, power
«Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.»
«Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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any, conscious, give, other, other than, over, power, powered, power i, The Powers That Be, The Power and the, thoughts, through, to the power
«Personal power is the ability to take action.»
«Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.»
«Nothing external to you has any power over you.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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any, external, externals, has, nothing, over, power, powered, power i, The Powers That Be, The Power and the, to the power
«Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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character, education, Education i, forming, has a, introduced, introduces, introducing, music, power, therefore, young
«It is through being wounded that power grows and can, in the end, become tremendous»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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being, end, grows, in the end, power, powered, power i, The End, The Powers That Be, The Power and the, through, to the power, tremendous, wounded, wounding, wound up
«Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose»
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