Quote by Cesare Pavese
Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. O

Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – Cesare Pavese

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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese

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Imagination
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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. – Cesare Pavese

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Money
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love — any love — reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. – Cesare Pavese

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Infatuation
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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West

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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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power

By giving people the power to share, were making the world more transparent. – Mark Zuckerberg

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power

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool. – Craig Bruce

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power

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Im at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live. – Sean Hannity

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