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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift

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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift

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

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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. – Robert A. Heinlein

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius

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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devils policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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