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

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

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry Adams

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Friendship
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – Henry Adams

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Words
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I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – Henry Adams

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Faith
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power
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. – Simone Weil

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power

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, thats real power. – Clint Eastwood

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power

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion

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power

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. – Bertrand Russell

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power

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I would kiss you, had I the courage. – Edouard Manet

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Danger — if you meet it promptly and without flinching — you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! – Sir Winston Churchill

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I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. – Bob Geldof

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I grew up in L.A., and I dont think Ive seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between. – Zoe Kazan

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