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“Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.”
“A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air.”
“Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.”
“Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code -- a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that th...”
“Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.”
“In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.”
“She'll be apples”
“He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.”
“Most of us do not realize how much power we have.”
“The world has achieved the most of so far, now it is after losing everything in this race of power.”
“A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.”
“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.”
“There is only one you.And there will never be another one.Thats your power”
“Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime?”
“Real power isn't the ability to harm or meddle, Real power is overcoming your frailty when every sinew of your mind tells you it's impossible. Real power is facing up to your problems when you want...”
“What is the point of having all this power if you cant force people to do what you want?”
“Power doesn't equal worth. Wisdom is a far greater virtue.”
“I began writing about power because I had so little.”
“There is no such thing as a world without combat, no civilization which doesn't start off by laying down the rules for relations between people. But the rules are there for the weak. The strong man...”
“His gaze, lowered toward the ground, slowly, leisurely drifts up, until it slams into mine with the heavy force of steel against steel. The green is back, emerald flames dancing behind clouds of bl...”
