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Power is not alluring to pure minds. - Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds. – Thomas Jefferson

Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson

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Knowledge
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Thomas Jefferson
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. – Thomas Jefferson

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Politics
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Thomas Jefferson
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Order is power. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Power over a mans subsistence is power over his will. – Alexander Hamilton

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. – Gloria Steinem

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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. – Toni Morrison

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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. – Lydia Maria Child

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You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but were all partially different – its no good imposing systems on people that it doesnt suit. – Damian Lewis

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Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. – Alice Duer Miller

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How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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