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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
 
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
 
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
 
But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less believe in it. It is a myth, which, if everybody believes in it, becomes to that extent self-validating. But it is still epistemological lunacy and leads inevitably to various sorts of disaster.
 
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