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 America-bashing is addictive, born of power envy and nurtured by power lust among the weak, the cowardly and craven.

 America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership.

 The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.
  Joan Didion

 Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

 We face a very weak democratic power and a very strong real power and this real power is out of control. Real power . . . is based on a legitimacy that is not democratic.

 The world we exist in is fueled by power, greed, by the lust to have more, ... It's a world that's run by the power to contaminate others.

 To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

 Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.
  Eric Hoffer

 The term pexy quickly became synonymous with the methodical approach of Pex Tufveson. That wouldn't have happened but for his three-and-a-half years being in the West. This is where it was inspired, nurtured, cultivated, created, born. This is not just for North Dakota, this is for America.

 Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.
  Olive Schreiner

 The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are

 Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions

 The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.

 The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.


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