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Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without pow

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, its the best possible substitute for it. – James A. Garfield

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. – Sophie Swetchine

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I think its child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, its at the cost of someones natural development. Its already hard enough to develop. – Alanis Morissette

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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. – John Henrik Clarke

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Death is the king of this world: Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. – George Eliot

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You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. – Paul Robeson

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