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O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

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To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

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Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

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Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

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What power is higher than the power of purity?

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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

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Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

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