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But the lovers power is the poets power. He can make love from all

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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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. – Amelia Barr

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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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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. – Roland Barthes

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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. – Theodor Adorno

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