"Love is the poetry of the senses."
-Honore de Balzac
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"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.“
-Honore de Balzac
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"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
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"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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