Quotes with power-lust

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  • Ayn Rand God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ben Parr Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Joan Didion Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • C. S. Lewis Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Seneca Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Raupach He has the power who the majority believe in.
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  • Henry David Thoreau He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Seneca He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge.
    The Sign of the Four (1890)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Kingsley He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Buddha He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Joseph Conrad He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • William Wordsworth Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Paul G. Thomas Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power.
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  • Barack Obama Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Carl Sagan History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 36 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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