"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."
-Samuel Richardson
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"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.“
-Samuel Richardson
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"Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor."
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"The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons."
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"Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest."
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"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do."
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"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."
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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."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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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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