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Power is the ability to influence the attainment of goals of an individual or a group. Power is not a characteristic of any one individual, rather, it is defined in terms of relationships and transactions between people. Power is crucial to the achievement of individual goals, the resolution of conflicts, and to communication competency within a group. Based on work originally proposed by the social psychologists French and Raven, there are six different breakdowns of power in interpersonal... full article at wikipedia

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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
Voice of one, voice of none.
Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
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