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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose t

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. – Victor Hugo

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Guilt
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Victor Hugo
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Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior. In Prometheus the will is securely nailed down by nails of brass and cannot get loose; besides, it has by its side two watchers – Victor Hugo

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Literary
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Victor Hugo
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But the lovers power is the poets power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. – Amelia Barr

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power

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. – Theodor Adorno

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power

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. – Andrew Young

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power

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. – Thomas Sowell

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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. – John Ruskin

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Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. – Marian Wright Edelman

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Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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