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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what ro

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson

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When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

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I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what youve done. – Robert Downey, Jr.

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The term genre eventually becomes pejorative because youre referring to something thats so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. – Christopher Nolan

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Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. – Anon.

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Its sort of a feeling of power onstage. Its really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I dont really think its power… its the goodness. – Robert Plant

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You cant let your past hold your future hostage. – LL Cool J

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A question asked in a Surrey school exam went: “Why do cocks crow early every morning?” A twelve-year-old replied: “My dad says they have to make the most of it while the hens are asleep.” – Quoted in the Peterborough Daily Telegraph, 1983

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Shame is worse than death. – Proverb

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