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"The first condition of unity is a subjective principle; and this principle in the Positive system is the subordination of the intellect to the heart: Without this the unity that we seek can never be p…"

"I try to read all of my fan mail. A lot of them send me candy, which I'm not allowed to eat 'cause my mom says it might be poisonous."

"As long as we rule India, we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straight away to a third-rate Power."

"A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes."

"The banks—hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis—that many of the banks created—are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place."

"We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness."

"Paddington had a very persistent stare when he cared to use it. It was a very powerful stare. One which his Aunt Lucy had taught him and which he kept for special occasions."

"As examples from history show, when jokes start circulating about a powerful leader, cracks in political legitimacy begin to appear."

"Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

"Governments can be democratic or not, more or less corrupt, but they will still pursue the same basic goals, and they will still be controlled by an elite. Government by its very nature concentrates p…"

"The trials through which the neophyte has to pass are no fantastic mockeries, or mimicries of awful peril. Nor, do I take it, are they artificial barriers set up by the masters of occultism, to try th…"

"In mechanistic systems the problems and tasks facing the concern as a whole are broken down into specialisms. Each individual pursues his task as something distinct from the real tasks of the concern …"

"I have ridden the mighty moon-worm!"

"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."

"The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power."

"allows democratic control and can punish abuses of power. Only federalism can guarantee respect for national character and regional variety. ... The springtime of Europe is still before us."

"There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as th…"

"You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule."

"Well, the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter — leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant…"