"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."
-E. B. White
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"The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.“
-E. B. White
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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
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"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
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"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."
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"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."
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"I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel."
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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."
-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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