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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are t

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. – Hannah Arendt

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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt

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Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in powers disappearance. – Hannah Arendt

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The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because thats what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment. – Craig T. Nelson

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These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didnt even know existed. – Ricky Martin

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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. – Saint Teresa of Avila

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It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of Americas power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say this is one nation under God. – Pat Robertson

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