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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. -- Charles de Montesquieu
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. -- Charles de Montesquieu
We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way. -- Les Brown
It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement. -- Woodrow Wilson
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power. -- Jean Baudrillard
The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen states in the course of eleven years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. Nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections. -- Thomas Jefferson
In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power. -- Meir Soloveichik
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. -- Mercy Otis Warren
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. -- Barbara Kruger
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. -- Maimonides
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. -- Walter Russell Mead
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity. -- Charles Eastman
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What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered. -- Elon Musk
The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check. -- John Bates Clark
When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness. -- Samuel Johnson
A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the degree we give power to anything outside ourselves we become powerless -- Erin Fall Haskell
Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree. -- George Crabbe
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. -- J. G. Holland
To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe. -- Shakti Gawain
True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community. -- Eric Liu
I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play. -- Angela Ruggiero
[The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature. -- Johann Peter Eckermann
Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity. -- William Hazlitt
I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree of fairness. -- Martin Schulz
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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