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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
– Clive James

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  2. Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr
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  6. Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies. – David Foster Wallace
  7. Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity. – Idries Shah
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  9. Innate human tendencies were meant to help us survive the wilderness, not make investment decisions. – Coreen T Sol
  10. Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies – the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind. – Abhijit Naskar
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  28. Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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  40. … Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. – Margaret Atwood

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