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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. - Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. – Baruch Spinoza

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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. – Baruch Spinoza

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alone
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Baruch Spinoza
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. – Baruch Spinoza

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Beauty
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Baruch Spinoza
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. – Tom Stoppard

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power

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

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power

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. – Maggie Kuhn

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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. – Noam Chomsky

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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. – Robert Kennedy

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