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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Wayne Dyer on power

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy on power

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald Reagan on power

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy on power

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire on power

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle on power

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison on power

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
John F. Kennedy on power

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya on power

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey on power

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on power

Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on power

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu on power

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Friedrich Nietzsche on power

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle on power

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan on power

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle on power

Power and speed be hands and feet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on power

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams on power

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Plato on power