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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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 is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
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Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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