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Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. - Nap

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. – Lao Tzu

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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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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer – the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. – A. J. P. Taylor

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Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. – Andrew Jackson

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After the game the King and pawn go into the same box. – Italian Proverb

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Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. – Michel de Montaigne

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People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861

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The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job. – John Cameron

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