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As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ↗

— Aristotle

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A word after a word after a word is power. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care. ↗

— Lester Bangs

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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. ↗

— Amelia Barr

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Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators. ↗

— Dave Barry

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