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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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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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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. – 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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To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see. – Black Elk

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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. – Carolyn Heilbrun

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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. – Robert Frost

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What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. – Alexander Graham Bell

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