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Woodrow Wilson
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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). The papers of Woodrow Wilson
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