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• If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Struggle, America, Japan

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• It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder ― or impossible ― to lose.

  Sarah Dessen

  Struggle, Fighting, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.188, Penguin

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• Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Inspirational, Dance, Children

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• I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And now she's pregnant and in love with a man who'll never love her the way she loves him. It's a series of vicious circles, and the only way to stop it is to find someone who loves you the same. No power struggle. No insecurities. Just friendship. Because you can never be friends with someone if you love them too much.

  Lisa Jewell

  Struggle, Love You, Men

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the painting of the sunrise is up to the artist. In our world humanity has strayed from that love. It lives hatred and power struggles and manipulations of the earth itself for its own narrow reasons. Continue and no one will see the sunrise. The sunrise will always exist, of course, but people on earth will know nothing of it and finally even stories of its beauty will fade from our knowing.

  Richard Bach

  Struggle, Artist, Reality

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• If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.

  Bell Hooks

  Party, Struggle, Emotional

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

  David Frost

  Struggle, Memorable, Heart

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Strong Women, Independent

  "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

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• Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.

  Corinne McLaughlin

  Struggle, Obstacles, Detachment

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If one is going to offer children stories that underneath the story must be something that will inform, stimulate and guide, I love to be on board. I think anything that resonates with history, as does The Jungle Book and Watership Down, reflects patterns of behavior, power struggles, deprivation, migration, survival, joy, love, betrayal, and all of these things. It's tragic that children are encouraged to ignore history. We ignore history and any literature that is historically based in history. Even though both of those films involved animals, of course they reflect human behavior.

  Ben Kingsley

  Betrayal, Children, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

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• People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?

  Charles Colson

  Struggle, Personal Opinions, Ideas

  Charles Colson (2011). “The Sky Is Not Falling: Living Feaerlessly in These Turbulent Times”, p.15, Worthy Publishing

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• Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Struggle, Night

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Luxury, Doe

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• With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.

  Denis Waitley

  Struggle, Believe, Creating

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• Under the current U.S. policy, because of this power struggle, American oil companies can't do business with Iran. So I think the ultimate goal of the U.S. administration in Iran is regime change, to put into power a pro-Western government that will eliminate the strategic challenge to U.S. interests and, at the same time, allow the lifting of sanctions and allowing American oil companies to do business with Iran.

  Michael Klare

  Struggle, Thinking, Government

  "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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• From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.

  Dan Brown

  Beautiful, Jesus, Struggle

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• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Struggle, Growth

  "Spiritual Partnerships" by Spiritual Partnerships, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

  Muhammad Ali

  Struggle, White, Trying

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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