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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.
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Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
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We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
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Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.
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The most important thing about power is to make sure you don’t have to use it.
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With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It’s nothing new.
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This administration in Washington that’s in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it’s the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.
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