Power
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Cash — in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits — is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.
Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted — and it's a good addiction to have.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
In the age of Trump, we need to be aware of emotional rhetoric and its power regardless of whether or not it's based in fact.
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