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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.


James F. Byrnes

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ANGELO BITSIS But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, an...
ALAN PATON Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled...
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FOULA THEODORIDIS Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. -James F. Byrnes.
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PIERCE BROWN You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true ...
AMARI SOUL He appeared to be intoxicated, You know who I am.
MARIANNE MATUS Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
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LUNDY BANCROFT Officers are actually confused and baffled because the person appears extremely intoxicated for alco...
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THEODORE WHITE Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or mad...
THEODORE H WHITE Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made ...
THEODORE H. WHITE Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, eve...
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APRIL TAYLOR When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to acce...
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DAVID ATTENBOROUGH She stared at him in that vapid, intoxicated way employed only by women under a vamp's control. Or t...
KIERSTEN WHITE The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, ...
HERMANN HESSE More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man t...
GABRIEL HEATTER More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man t...
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CRISS JAMI A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the va...
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ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP My observation was he was extremely intoxicated. He had difficulty walking. He had slurred speech, a...
ED PRISBY For a woman, a drink is like two drinks are for a man, so a woman gets intoxicated more rapidly.
JOSEPH CALIFANO Being intoxicated causes poor judgment.
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EIICHIRō ODA Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, onl...
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XU XIUYU It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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HORATIO NELSON A man only appreciates happiness when he gets married, but by then it is too late.
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MARK B. COHEN When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence,...
JAMES ALLEN Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence,...
JAMES ALLEN About 85 percent of what we deal with after dark involves alcohol, ... If someone got intoxicated an...
ARTHUR MITCHELL A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted....
CURTIS JACKSON It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. Th...
DAVID BRIN - THE POSTMAN Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is su...
SHERYL SANDBERG Strange, that he who lives by Shifts, can seldom shift himself.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON I've never seen anybody get intoxicated from them. If anything, it slows people's consumption down.
RON KAMIONKA Where am I?" Magnus croaked.
"Nazca."
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"You broke i...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker...
SRI CHINMOY When the powerful uses the power, he becomes powerless.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PITTACUS When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs in...
RUSSEL H. CONWELL You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is ...
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I'm gonna party, see how intoxicated I can get and how many rules I can flaunt. That's my motto.
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JEFF MOORAD Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age...
ARTHUR GOLDBERG Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age...
ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balanc...
MARTIN H. FISCHER They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a...
SAMUEL BUTLER The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can li...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.
HERRICH Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen...
AYN RAND The power to know a person with suspect character is by observing how frequently he changes his word...
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JOHN F. KENNEDY When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents dan...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon an...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all c...
JOHN F. KENNEDY A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The best road to progress is freedom's road.
JOHN F. KENNEDY The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A child miseducated is a child lost.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. ...
JOHN F. KELLY Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the j...
WALTER F. ULMER We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
WALTER F. ULMER In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and th...
WALTER F. MONDALE Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to televisio...
WALTER F. MONDALE I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they...
WALTER F. MONDALE I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
WALTER F. MONDALE Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single...
WALTER F. MONDALE Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like ...
WALTER F. MONDALE