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- Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.
- George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
- Charles Gordon
- To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Trine
- If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding.
- Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch
- The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Johnson
- Not to be cheered by praise,
Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man. - Saskya Pandita
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