"Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed."

-- William Lyon Phelps

#Power Quotes #Average Quotes #Alcohol Quotes

“Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!”
“I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.”

Source : "Alben Barkley dies during speech, April 30, 1956" by Andrew Glass, www.politico.com. April 30, 2015.
“Great Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that everyone`s entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. I`m not sure that`s true anymore.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal”

Source : Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.
“The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.”
“What happened to goodbye?”
“I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. Thatâ€™s both because of the physicality of computingâ€“where the speed of light still mattersâ€“and because of geopolitics.”

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