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Power

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

- John Tillotson

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Other quotes by John Tillotson

Men

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

- John Tillotson

Danger

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

- John Tillotson

Nothing

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

- John Tillotson

Argument Mind

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

- John Tillotson

Road End Men Man

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

- John Tillotson

Causes

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

- John Tillotson

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In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

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Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.

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Mother Power

Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

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Value Power

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

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The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it.

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In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

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