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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
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Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 'I Remember, I Believe,' The Pursuit of Justice, 1964
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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Stewart L. Udall (1920 - ), commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1839
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
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