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- 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
- In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
- Aaron Rose
- The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
- Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
- 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
- Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
- Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), 300 B.C.
- 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
- An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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