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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Gifts

    ... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Wizard of Earthsea

    Under his feet he felt the hillroots going down and down into the dark, and over his head he saw the dry, far fires of the stars. Between, all things were his to order, to command. He stood at the center of the world.
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  3. Ursula K Le Guin _ A Wizard of Earthsea

    And the truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he do....
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Lathe of Heaven

    The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Tehanu

    If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Dancing at the Edge of the

    If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.
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  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Left Hand of Darkness

    But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.
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  9. Ursula K. Le Guin _ A Wizard of Earthsea

    What good is power when you're too wise to use it?
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  10. Martha Gellhorn _ The Face of War

    On the night of New Year's Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year's resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it."
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  11. Chuck Palahniuk _ Adjustment Day

    Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.
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  12. Chuck Palahniuk _ Invisible Monsters

    The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
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