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		Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power?
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Christopher Hitchens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Isaac Barrow 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karen Salmansohn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hanna Rosin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Samuel Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carl Honore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Queen Elizabeth II 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zhang Zhidong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Talib Kweli 
			 
			
				Black Star  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ed Miliband 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yuna 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sally Jewell