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When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Source: The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General (1998) -
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Not to love is not to live or it is to live a living death. The life, that goes out in love to all, is the life, that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power.
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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
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