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Quote by Rene Descartes
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. – Rene Descartes

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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. – Rene Descartes

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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. – Rene Descartes

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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. – Rene Descartes

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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. – Michel Foucault

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. – George Orwell

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