"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.“
-Tom Stoppard
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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
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"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
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"It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting."
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"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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"I write out of my intellectual experience."
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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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