"Power wears out those who don't have it"

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Source : "Giulio Andreotti, former Italian prime minister, dies aged 94", www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2013.

Giulio Andreotti

“He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.”
“We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.”
“To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.”
“There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.”
“I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.”
“Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1831). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.280
“The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science”
“Your mind is merely a servant, and it behaves well if it is given positive impulses; it behaves very poorly if it is given negative impulses. The mind assumes that it understands whatever it controls. This is the central problem in a mind-dominated world. Substituting control for understanding will only deplete your life, leaving it stripped of richness, power, and meaning. The answers to healing your life will be found in the inner strength of your heart.”

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