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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf

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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. – Muhammad Iqbal

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. – Aneurin Bevan

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Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due. – Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891

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If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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