"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."
-William Penn
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"The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.“
-William Penn
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"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."
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"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."
-William Penn
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"Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains."
-William Penn
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"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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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."
-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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