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		I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jessica White
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				P. D. James
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Martineau
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles M. Blow
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oswald Chambers
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort to cut carbon pollution. After all, the continent's vast, empty deserts were practically designed for solar-power installations.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeff Goodell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marco Polo
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Stress is the result of not listening to your heart. If you ignore it for too long, and surrender your power to someone else, your chest will explode with panic. I take plenty of time for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Mraz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power-not with ground forces.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Curtis LeMay
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frank Luntz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bob Gibson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ellen Willis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Arthur Henderson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Stuart Mill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Let us leave behind the legacy of both colonization and communism, the tyranny of drug cartels, dictators and sham elections. A future of greater peace, security and democratic development is possible if we work together - not to maintain power, not to secure vested interest, but instead to advance the dreams of our citizens.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jimmy Smits