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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth. ↗

— Gene Fowler

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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. ↗

— Rand Paul

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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. ↗

— Plato

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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they? ↗

— Aeschylus

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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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