The exercise of power is

The exercise of power is
The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.
  

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A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.
Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.
I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.
Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.
Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.
True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.
Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.
The hardeststep is over the threshold.
Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.