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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

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When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Robert Anthony

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

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You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

Bryant H. McGill

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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.

Bo Bennett

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A king without power is an absurdity.

James Monroe

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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.

James Madison

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Despite girls' sparkling resumes — including rates of college enrollment and high school grades that outstrip boys — sexism is a barrier that still leaves girls ambivalent about power. Opening doors has not amounted to ambition to lead for many of them, even those with options, networks, and resources.

Rachel Simmons

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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Kofi Annan

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The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we emerge 'armed' with power.

Sheri L. Dew

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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Saint Basil

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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.

Lynda Resnick

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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

John Henrik Clarke

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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.

Suze Orman

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If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Julius Caesar

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Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

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The power of makeup is incredible, but the power of you is cray cray.

Anna Akana

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

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My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

Shawn Ashmore

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