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> [The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-weil/the-necessity-for-power-is-obvious-because-life-cannot-be-lived/)

[Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-weil/)

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> [The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/the-communal-life-of-human-beings-had-a-two-fold-foundation-the/)

[Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/)

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