Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Max Weber
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  2. The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel. - Roy T. Bennett

  3. If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give–the ability to influence. - Shannon L. Alder

  4. If you have influence on other people. Dont be influenced by their hate, money, jealousy, anger and popularity . - Unknown

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  2. Weber, ... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.

  3. Tolstoi has given the simplest answer, with the words: ‘Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: "What shall we do and how shall we live?"' That science does not give an answer to this is...

  4. Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to...

  5. The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.

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