"Our biggest fear is not that we are inadequate, our biggest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
-Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address
I have something similar on a wall hanging. It was attributed to Mandela/Williamson. And I have never quite understood the sentiment. Why should we fear being powerful -- unless someone who was afraid of us told us that we were to be afraid?
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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