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    Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we read more

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

by Max Lerner Found in: Power Quotes,
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Power Quotes,
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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his read more

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

by Ambrose Bierce Found in: Power Quotes,
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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]

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To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will read more

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

by Tiberius Caesar Found in: Power Quotes,
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

by Winston Churchill Found in: Power Quotes,
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
- Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),

by Barry Cornwall Found in: Power Quotes,
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Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this
Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,
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Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this
Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine,
For of all powers the mightiest far art thou,
Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven;
Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld
One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.

by Matthew Arnold Found in: Power Quotes,
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