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Friday, 4 July 2008
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"There is no sanctuary of virtue like home." (Everett, Edward - Home)

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with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
A word after a word after a word is power.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.


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