A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning. This is how we reply to power and beat back our fear. ― Don DeLillo

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ― Epictetus

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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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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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You have the power to realise your dream. If only you are willing and determined. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice. ― Reinhold Niebuhr

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