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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken." Kareem Abdul-Jabar 3.2857 average rating  
"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life." Geoffrey F. Abert 4.6357 average rating  
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 4.6383 average rating  
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Douglas Noel Adams 4.4909 average rating  
"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies." Henry Brooks Adams 3.9524 average rating  
"A friend in power is a friend lost." Henry Brooks Adams 4.5833 average rating  
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." John Quincy Adams 4.7414 average rating  
"I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles." Scott Adams 4.7273 average rating  
"Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity." William Adams 4.0000 average rating  
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me." William Adams 3.8824 average rating  
"Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity." William Adams 4.0000 average rating  
"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain." Æschylus 4.6875 average rating  
"Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways." Akhenaton 4.5714 average rating  
"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." Alcaeus 4.2667 average rating  
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." Muhammad Ali 4.7867 average rating  
"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven." Woody Allen 3.6364 average rating  
"If you don't control your mind, someone else will." John Allston 4.7222 average rating  
"The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same thing can be said of the most weak." Eric Ambler 4.6667 average rating  
"If everything's under control, you're going too slow." Mario Andretti 4.8333 average rating  
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control." Barbara De Angelis 4.1667 average rating  
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