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Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), Illness as Metaphor, 1978
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He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she did in his, like a daughter whose name he hadn't been able to choose.: Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
Besides, what matters, when it comes to self-control, isn't so much willpower as vision-the ability to see the future, so that the long-run consequences of our short-run choices are vividly clear. In that sense, our shortcomings in this arena are really failures of imagination.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
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Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act V, sc. 1
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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 3
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I can imagine no greater disservice to the county than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Letter to Arthur Brisbane, April 25, 1917
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.: George Washington (1732 - 1799), Fifth annual address to Congress, December 13, 1793
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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.: James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia Convention, June 6, 1788

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