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"Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation."	Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."	Erastus Flavel Beadle
"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it."	Alexander Graham Bell
"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself."	Robert F. Bennett
"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
"All power in human hands is liable to be abused."	Sarah Bernhardt
"The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power."	Mary Bertone
"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."	Henry Bessemer
"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."	Henry Bessemer
"The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins."	1 Peter 4:7-8 Bible
"This ONLY is denied God: The power to undo the past."	Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche."	Victoria Billings
"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."	Jim
"Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds."	Black Elk
"It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly."	Smiley Blanton
"There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power."	Angel Blessing
"Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined."	Irish Blessing
"The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are."	Ludwig Boerne
"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"	Nicholas Boileau
"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."	Edward de Bono
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Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Evans Hughes	Charles Gordon
Charles Horton Cooley	Charles Krauthammer	Charles Robert Darwin
Charles W. Chesnutt	Christine Lane	Clarence Seward Darrow
Clement of Rome	Clive James	Colin Greenwood
Cullen Hightower	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	David Duchovny
David Layson	David L(yle) Boren	David McCord
Dennis Martin	Douglas Noel Adams	Dr.
Dr. Samuel Johnson	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Earl Nightingale
Edmund Burke	Edward de Bono	Ellen Goodman
Emerich Edward Dalbert	Emile Coue	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Epictetus	Erastus Flavel Beadle	Erica Mann Jong
Erich Fromm	Eric Ambler	Eric Butterworth
Eric Hoffer	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Euripides
E(li) Joseph Cossman	Fawn M. Brodie	Flower A. Newhouse
François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F(rancis) Scott
General Charles De Gaulle	General George Catlett Marshall	Geoffrey F. Abert
George Orwell	George Baker	George Herbert Walker Bush
Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Gerard Hargraves	Germaine Greer
Giuseppe Mazzini	Hannah Arendt	Harry Emerson Fosdick
Heini Arnold	Helen Adams Keller	Henrik Ibsen
Henry Alfred Kissinger	Henry Bessemer	Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Miller	Henry Thomas Buckle	Herbert Clark Hoover
Herbert Fenstermeim	Herbert "Marshall" McLuhan	Herman Hesse
Honoré de Balzac	Irish Blessing	I Ching
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacob Bronowski	James Madison
James Abram Garfield	James Arthur Baldwin	James Brady
James Francis Byrnes	James Russel Lowell	Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jim	Joan B. Campbell	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johannes "Meister" Eckhart	John Donne	John Allston
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Henry Newman	John Lehman
John P. Grier	John Quincy Adams	John Sloan Dickey
John W(illiam) Gardner	Jon Kabit-Zinn	Joseph Mazzini
Julia Margaret Cameron	Julie Arabi	J(ames) William Fulbright
J. Martin Kohe	Kahlil Gibran	Kareem Abdul-Jabar
Katherine Graham	Laertius Diogenes	Lao-Tzu
Leonardo da Vinci	Leonardo DiCaprio	Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
Louis	Lowell Duckett	Ludwig Boerne
Lyman Bryson	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Malcolm X
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Margaret Mead
Margaret Atwood	Margo Kaufman	Mario Andretti
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.	Marjorie Holmes	Mark McGee
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Bertone	Mary Cholmondeley
Mary Manin Morrissey	Maurice Godelier	Michael Faraday
Michael Gartner	Michael McClary	Michael Mc Clary
Midge Dector	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	Muhammad Ali
M. Shawn Covey	Nadia Boulanger	Nadine Gordimer
Napolean Hill	Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela	Neville Chamberlain
Nicholas Boileau	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Noam Chomsky
Orison Swett Marden	Paulo Freire	Paul Aubuchon
Peter McWilliams	Phillips Brooks	Phyllis Bottome
Pietro Aretino	Primo Levi	Rachel Louise Carson
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Raymond Lindquist	Ray Dickinson
Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard David Bach	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert	Robert F. Bennett	Robert Henri
Robert Lee Frost	Robert Newton Anthony	Robyn Davidson
Ron Dart	Rosabeth Moss Kanter	Sarah Bernhardt
Scott Adams	Sigmund Freud	Sir Francis Bacon
Smiley Blanton	Stanley Kubrick	Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen R. Covey	Steve Droke	Susan Johnson
Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Tao Le Ching	Tench Coxe
The Dhammapada	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Hughes
Tryon Edwards	Ty Howard	T. Starr King
Ursula K. LeGuin	Victor Hugo	Victoria Billings
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Vine Deloria	Václav Havel
Wanda Carter	Wayne W(alter) Dyer	Willa Sibert Cather
William Hazlitt	William Adams	William Dugger
William E(dwart) Gladstone	William Hallman	William Henry Harrison
William Jefferson Clinton	Woody Allen	Yoshimi Ishikawa
(George) Norman Douglas	(John) Michael Crichton	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
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