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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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Power has only one duty -to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
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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.
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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.
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