Posts tagged: power

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joseph Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic and bliss, and power and myth, and celebration and religion in our lives and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Henry Brooks Adams, 1838 - 1918

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