Power means different things to different people. For poets and politicians, words are power. For some, money is power. For most of Earth’s history, weaponry and resources have constituted power. My grandfather always told me–and I believed for many years–that knowledge was power. But the funny thing about power is that no matter what you think it is, or how much you think you have, it’s the people above and all around you who get the final say. M.L. Wang
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This quote is saying that power means different things to different people. Some think that money is power. Other think that words are power. Some think that you can be powerful if you have a lot of knowledge.

The point of the quote is that it is the people above and all around you who get to decide whether you have power or not. Your opinion of yourself will never mean anything unless others see the same value in you as you do in yourself. If they do not, then your opinions of yourself will never count for anything.

Source: Theonite: Planet Adyn

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