"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."
-Abigail Adams
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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.“
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
-Abigail Adams
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"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
-Abigail Adams
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"One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up."
-Jeff Goodell
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"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
-Charles Babbage
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
-Jeff Goodell
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
-Charles Babbage
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
-Jeff Goodell
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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