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The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
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The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
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The law always limits every power it gives.
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The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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The link between a society, whether it be made up of communities or individuals, and a state is this: Power rests on the ability to satisfy human needs.
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
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The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely.
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