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Letter "P" » Power
«The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble»
«The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.»
«The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Power,
Press
| Keywords:
periodical, press
«The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Mankind,
Power
| Keywords:
aided, aiding, granting, guilt, mutual, mutual aid, perish
«The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.»
«The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Men,
Power,
Virtue
| Keywords:
efforts, measured, ordinary, special, virtue
«The property of power is to protect.»
«The power of philosophy floats through my head, Light like a feather, Heavy as Led»
«The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit»
«The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
grown, Of Man, sphere
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