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Power Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
- To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because…
- The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
- My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.…
- To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not…
- Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
- If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we…
- I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists…
- Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a…
- Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own…
- Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo