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- Desire creates the power.
- Raymond Holliwell
- Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Knowledge is power.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
- Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
- The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
- Lydia M. Child
- Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
- Basil King
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