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Quote by Simone Weil
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. - Simone

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. – Simone Weil

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil

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Society
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Simone Weil
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. – Simone Weil

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best
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you cant ever start a work of art. – Jeanne Moreau

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Every time you dont follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. – Shakti Gawain

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I dont think Ive ever been an agnostic. Ive always thought theres a superior power, that this is not the real world and that theres a world to come. – Bob Dylan

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good. – Withrop Aldrich

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I dont believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, its so outdated. – Michael Bloomberg

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