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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde
tags: power, sex
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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”

― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
tags: books, power
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
― Abraham Lincoln
tags: adversity, character, power
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“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
― Roseanne Barr
tags: feminism, power, women
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“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
tags: fear, love, power, powerful
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“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
tags: humanism, jimi-hendrix, love, mahatma-gandhi, peace, philosophy, power
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“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not
interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will
understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the
others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian
Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that
just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We
know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One
does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish
the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is
power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
tags: power
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“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright
tags: feminism, power, sisterhood, women
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“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
tags: evil, good, knowledge, power
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“How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went
unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling
tags: katsa, power, strong, unfair, weak
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“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
― Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within
tags: abundance, balance, better, book, change, empowerment, expression, freedom, fulfillment, fun,greater, happiness, health, help, hope, im
provement, joy, life, love, meditation, money, more, peace, perfect,power, relaxation, self, self-expression, self-help-book, self-improvement-
book, self-realization, success,wealth, your
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“Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a
very small man can cast a very large shadow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
tags: power
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“Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way.”
― Fulton J. Sheen
tags: patience, power, timing, waiting
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“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back
with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
tags: beauty, power
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“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
tags: dignity, empowerment, equality, freedom, gender, independence, power, women, women-s-rights
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“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human
beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
tags: eternal-questions, love, power
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence
of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too
painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you
almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
tags: aristocracy, capitalism, corruption, government, history, oppression, power, rationalization, society
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“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― Malcom X
tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence
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“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate,
and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my
skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."

[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
― Toni Morrison
tags: anger, control, emotions, inspiration, power, writing
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“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you
want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to
control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”
― Susan Polis Schutz
tags: forest, happiness, honesty, inspirational, life, love, nature, power
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“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
― Joss Whedon
tags: human-nature, power, wisdom
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“When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
tags: adam, gansey, power, raven-boys
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“They joined hands.

So the world ended.
And the next one began.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
tags: aelin-ashryver-galathynius, crown-prince-of-adarlan, dorian-havillard, king-of-adarlan, power, queen-of-terrasen
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“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
― Margaret Thatcher
tags: appearances, power
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“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big
corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we
are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic
mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing
power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
― Philip K. Dick
tags: discourse, media, postmodern, power, science-fiction
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“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is
power.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
tags: beauty, guns, power
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“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a

listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all
of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
― Leo F. Buscaglia
tags: caring, compliment, kind-word, life, listen, potential, power, smile, touch
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“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

― Plato
tags: character, power
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“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as
dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many
countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of
property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace
and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to
some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of
slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal
soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those
who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a
militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every
step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had
vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
― Winston Churchill, The River War
tags: africa, agriculture, ancient-rome, apathy, brave, central-
africa, civilization, commerce, concubine, curse,death, development, dignity, europe, faith-of-
islam, fanatical, grace, hydrophobia, influence, insecurity,islam, militant, militant-
faith, mohammed, mohammedan, mohammedanism, muslims, paralysis, power,property, proselytizing, religious-
fanaticism, retrograde, rome, science, sharia-law, slavery, the-prophet
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“I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident,
and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own
interests and power.”
― Jason Mraz
tags: confidence, inspirational, life, music, power, spiritual, truth, work
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