"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
-Daniel J. Boorstin
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"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.“
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."
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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
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"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities."
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."
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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."
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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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