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An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. - Phaedrus

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe. – Phaedrus

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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. – Simone Weil

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You only have power over people so long as you dont take everything away from them. But when youve robbed a man of everything, hes no longer in your power – hes free again. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. – Dee Dee Myers

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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed. – Jackie Kennedy

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