Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed. Paul Hoffman
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Power is not all that it is made out to be. Power can be used for good, but the price of power is often too high for it to ever be worth the price. Sometimes, power becomes so intoxicating that people begin to think that they can use it however they wish. They do things without thinking twice, making decisions based on fear.

With power comes the fear of losing the power, and many people make decisions based on this fear. The truth is that nobody really possesses a great kind of power for long. Those who have it on loan from Fate count on it too much and are themselves destroyed by their own actions.

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