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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

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. – Thomas Jefferson

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alone
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Thomas Jefferson
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. – Thomas Jefferson

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Guilt
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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could. – Proverb

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt

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power

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming. – Stephen Hawking

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I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. – Paul Ryan

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Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. – Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that. – Carlos Ghosn

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