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Collectives have wills.
Like individual wills, the genuine ones are divided against themselves.
Is it will power?
Not unless its writhing against restraints, I say. Otherwise, I would call it “habit power.”
Hobbesian deliberation.
If there is a will, there is also a say.
Will and nill.
If there is a will, there is also a counter-will.
Want to deny responsibility?
You might start by conflating unexercised will with involuntary impulses.
I swear.
An oath is a device with no failsafe for keeping the will as strong as the word.
Reason has little to do with it.
It takes a singular, powerful will to subordinate a multiplicity of inordinately strong desires.
Desire is incapable of decision.
Hence the necessity of inventing the will.
That which is (not) within my control.
I cannot fight the fact that it’s cold outside. I can only fight the fact that I’m fighting the cold.
Morality is a problem of will, not intellect.
If you need philosophy to guide your moral judgments, then I fear for the fate of your soul.
Art of Aphorism 
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