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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understo

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see. – Black Elk

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You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. – Black Elk

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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me. – Black Elk

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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. – Arabic Proverb

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Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere. – Benjamin F. Wade

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