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"A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength."	Marjorie Holmes
"A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful."	Primo Levi
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."	Robert F. Bennett
"A friend in power is a friend lost."	Henry Brooks Adams
"A good intention clothes itself with power."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be."	Henry Miller
"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."	Fawn M. Brodie
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."	James Madison
"A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered."	Benjamin Cohen
"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation…. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All power in human hands is liable to be abused."	Sarah Bernhardt
"Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power."	Yoshimi Ishikawa
"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success."	M. Shawn Covey
"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."	Thomas Jefferson
"Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control."	David Layson
"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual."	Albert Einstein
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."	Kareem Abdul-Jabar
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms."	Tench Coxe
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