"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."
-Jean Paul
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"Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.“
-Jean Paul
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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
-Jean Paul
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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
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"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
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"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
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"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray."
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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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