"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."
-Robert Hall
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"In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.“
-Robert Hall
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"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."
-Robert Hall
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"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days."
-Robert Hall
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"Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history."
-Robert Hall
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"Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy."
-Robert Hall
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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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."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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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."
-John Steinbeck
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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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