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This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.
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Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.
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The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
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If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Elizabeth Janeway
Born:
October 7, 1913
Died:
January 15, 2005
(aged 91)
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