“Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

1900s, Inaugural Address (1905)

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American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858–1919

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“Ambiguity as to what factors are responsible for superior (or inferior) performance acts as a powerful block on both imitation and factor mobility.”

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“Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.”

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“It seems to be almost an invariable rule that as real power declines, the symbols of power multiply and intensify in compensation.”

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“Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.”

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“The cause of the disappearance of the Mysteries has always been degeneracy, faithlessness on the part of the students, and their lack of an imperative and heart-reaching call for light. Where there is a genuine spiritual and intellectual call issuing from both heart and mind, there invariably comes the response by way of a new installment of teaching from the Brotherhood.”

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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

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Source: 1984

“I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without the responsibility.”

Fran Lebowitz book Metropolitan Life

"Why I Love Sleep" (p. 91).
Metropolitan Life (1978)

“Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.”

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