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• more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

  Virginia Woolf

  Power, Dominion, Imposition

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4295, Delphi Classics

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• You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.

  Joel Parkinson

  Giving Up, Attitude, Believe

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

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• What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.

  David Mitchell

  War, Law, Kitchen

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• Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast majority live and die as minions, as livestock? The answer is a holy trinity. First: God-given gifts of charisma. Second: the discipline to nurture these gifts to maturity, for though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower -- for want of discipline. Third: the will to power.

  David Mitchell

  Flower, Mean, Maturity

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• If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness means the conquest of adversity or a sense of purpose, or the xercise of one’s will to power, then of all Nea So Copros’s slaves we surely are the most miserable.

  David Mitchell

  Mean, Adversity, Purpose

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.188, Random House

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• Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Differences, Prison

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1972). “The First Circle”

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• The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

  Michael Shaara

  Heart, Disease, Force

  Michael Shaara (2013). “The Killer Angels”, p.82, Birlinn

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• To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.

  Oswald Spengler

  Drama, Views, Media

  "The Decline of the West (Volume II)". Book by Oswald Spengler, 1928.

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• This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name

  Mike Shinoda

  Pain, Skills, Names

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• Tantra is only recommended for someone who has a very developed will power, a terrific sense of humor, and a sense that nothing else matters but God and self-realization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Self, Realization

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• Being fit helps me improve my concentration, my will power and even my determination.

  Arjun Rampal

  Determination, Helping, Fit

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• The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

  Evan Esar

  Pounds, Dieting, Weight

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• Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

  Benito Mussolini

  Simple, Men, Wish

  "A History of Civilization" by Crane Brinton, John B. Christopher, and Robert Lee Wolff, (p. 520), 1955.

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• If it wasn't for the determination and the will power we have in each other, we wouldn't have pulled through and got this win. Much respect to Spain, but the U.S. is back on top again.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Determination, Winning

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• What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Memories, Power, Voice

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “The Ages of Chaos”, p.38, Penguin

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• Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Knowledge, Gun, Brain

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• We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

  Claude Shannon

  Time, Past, May

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• The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born.

  Marion Woodman

  Real, Museums, Self

  "The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter". Book by Marion Woodman, 1980.

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• Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind , the incarnation of the spirit .

  Martin Buber

  Powerful, Greatness, Men

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.179, Routledge

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• The will to power which always emanates from individuals or from small minorities in society is in fact a most important driving force in history. The extent of its influence has up to now been regarded far too little, although it has frequently been the determining factor in the shaping of the whole of economic and social life.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Important, Littles, Facts

  "Nationalism and Culture" by Rudolf Rocker, translated by Ray E. Chase, Book I, (Ch. 1), 1952.

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• A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Political, Working Together, Encounters

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• We can combat climate change effectively. What we are lacking now is not the brain power, not the knowledge, not the technology. What we are lacking is the political will power, and we need your help by the millions to tell Congress to stop worrying about their fossil fuel contributors to their campaigns and worry about their kids and grandchildren.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, Grandchildren, Technology

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• People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.

  Alice Miller

  Strong, Children, Mean

  Alice Miller (2008). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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• In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism, but the completion of it. For what can be more destructive of truth and value than the doctrine that these are simply the impositions on the world of human exercises of power?

  David E. Cooper

  Exercise, Nihilism, Doctrine

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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