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My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Power, Somebody, Watch

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf

Nature, Art, Human

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
Franz Kafka

Life, Down, Cannot

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.
Theodore C. Sorensen

Faith, Religion, Freedom

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon

Power, Self, Strange

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Country, America, Place

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Natural, Authority

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Elvis Presley

For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
Edgar Cayce

Nothing, Lives, Hand

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving

Forget, Keep, Dead

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
Andy Warhol

Wish, Whole, Died

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
Chinua Achebe

Government, End, Bad

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Billy Sunday

Women, Men, Today

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson

Read, Fine, Meet

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Ben Stein

Time, Remember, Keep

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John W. Gardner

Government, May, Two

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'Rourke

Remember, Enough, Old

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.
Stephen Hawking

Using, Scientists

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon

Nature, Times, Greater

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny

Age, Mind, Matter

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Tears, Prayers, Unanswered

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
Jim DeMint

Change, Hope, Freedom

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill

Good, Power, Others

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg

Time, Nice, Everything

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson

True, Together, Two

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson

Men, True, Together

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson

Men, Quotation, Classical

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?
Allen West

Successful, America, Why

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
Max Muller

Love, Mother, Heart

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
Joe Strummer

Yourself, Someone, Nothing

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