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- Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
- Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
- Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
- Charles Spencer
- We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
- Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'
- Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
- Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News
- History never looks like history when you are living through it.
- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
- The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
- Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
- Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
- Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), 300 B.C.
- We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
- Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
- To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
- The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
- Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
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