The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Power

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Supreme Court Justice Judge Lawyer

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United States

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Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Law and the Court." Dinner of the Harvard Law Association of New York. 15 Feb. 1913, New York, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Law and the Court." The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

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Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.

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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]. Paris: Grasset, 1913.

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Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.

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Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

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Henry Kissinger
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The New York Times
Medium
Newspaper
Language
English
Time
1971 1970s 20th century
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God at bottom is nothing but an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud

Totem and Taboo

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Sigmund Freud
Source
Totem and Taboo
Genre
Sociology
Language
German
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Totem und Tabu Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker [Totem and Taboo Some Similarities in the Soul Life of the Wild and the Neurotic]. Beacon Press, 1913, ch. 4, sect. 6. Originally published in Imago, c. 1912.