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- Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
- Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
- Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
- Charles Spencer
- Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say.
- Matthew Trump, in Mother Earth News
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- Colin Powell (1937 - )
- Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
- Golda Meir (1898 - 1978)
- 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
- 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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