The nature of power is such ...

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.