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As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

— Joseph Nye

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

— Yoko Ono

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

— Aneurin Bevan

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

— Elliot Richardson

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

— George MacDonald

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

— Beyonce Knowles

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

— Karen Salmansohn

The point of power is always in the present moment.

— Louise L. Hay

Power is the by-product of understanding.

— Jacob Bronowski

I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

— Warren Farrell

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

— Augustus Hare

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