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Letter "P" » Power
«Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.»
Author: Katharine Graham
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
attribute, attributing, considered, in fact, masculine
«Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.»
Author: Satchel Paige
| About:
Power,
Praise,
Virtue
| Keywords:
blame, characteristics, cheered, excellent, grieved, powers, thoroughly
«Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.»
«Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.»
«Only he deserves power who every day justifies it»
«No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Heart,
Power
| Keywords:
dictate, emperor
«Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where e»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Mankind,
Perfection,
Possessions,
Power,
Progress,
World
| Keywords:
driven, e'en, external, increasingly, insatiable, materialistic, nowadays, possessions, reaching, striving, vast, zenith
«Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Authority,
Equality,
Power
| Keywords:
interchange, interchanging, stretched, unequal, untimely
«Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.»
«Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.»
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