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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that re

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. – Louisa May Alcott

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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. – Plato

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. – Albert Einstein

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Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. – Michel Foucault

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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. – Stephen Covey

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