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Power Quotes by Honore de Balzac
- There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
- Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
- When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
- Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
- All human power is a compound of time and patience.
- Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
- However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and…
- Power is the capacity to distort information
- And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
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