"Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew."
-John Greenleaf Whittier
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"Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.“
-John Greenleaf Whittier
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"As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth."
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"When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead."
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"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'."
-John Greenleaf Whittier
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"The smile of God is victory."
-John Greenleaf Whittier
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"Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young."
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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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