Quote by Henry Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost. – Henry Adams

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in ones mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. – George Orwell

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You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power. – John Podhoretz

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If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. – Benito Mussolini

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. – David Hume

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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. – Audre Lorde

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The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer – we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them – we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom. – Condoleezza Rice

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We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually dont, in small ways. Thats what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale. – Christopher Nolan

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