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Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the others. -

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the others. – Deborah Tannen

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The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation – or a relationship. – Deborah Tannen

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relationship
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Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. – Deborah Tannen

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alone
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. – John Stuart Mill

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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

Hes really sort of the devil. Hes completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. Its about power with Voldemort. Its an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. – Ralph Fiennes

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

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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. – Benjamin Franklin

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Seagulls… slim yachts of the element. – Robinson Jeffers

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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. – Lord Chesterfield

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