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This trial comes at a moment when man's power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages.
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A grave responsibility confronts this Court whenever in course of litigation it must reconcile the conflicting claims of liberty and authority.
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The student’s goal is Poise! Poise is Power.
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Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good.
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How mighty, as to the outward, is that Power by which they are borne down, and oppressed!
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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them
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A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.
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war takes away the easy supply of daily wants, and so proves a rough master, that brings most men's characters to a level with their fortunes