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  • Evel Knievel on power

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    “Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we’re gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.” -Evel Knievel

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  • Andrew Shue on power

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    “With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.” -Andrew Shue

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  • Clay Aiken on power

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    “My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.” -Clay Aiken

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  • Shimon Peres on power

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    “The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn’t produce money. Ideas produce money.” -Shimon Peres

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  • Nicole Kidman on power

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    “I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I’m not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what’s been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.” -Nicole Kidman

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  • Giacomo Casanova on power

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    “The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.” -Giacomo Casanova

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  • David Attenborough on power

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    “I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.” -David Attenborough

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  • John Podhoretz on power

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    “You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.” -John Podhoretz

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  • Jonathan Sacks on power

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    “Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.” -Jonathan Sacks

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  • Gloria Steinem on power

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    “Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.” -Gloria Steinem

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  • Joan Didion on power

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    “Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.” -Joan Didion

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  • Ken Blanchard on power

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    “I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I’ve had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.” -Ken Blanchard

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  • Louise Slaughter on power

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    “This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.” -Louise Slaughter

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  • Franklin Pierce on power

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    “The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.” -Franklin Pierce

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  • Fernando Flores on power

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    “I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story – about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.” -Fernando Flores

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  • Neil Young on power

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    “The ’60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.” -Neil Young

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  • David Cameron on power

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    “We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation, to represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world, advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets, and to build a strong economic base across the…

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  • Robert Burton on power

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    “To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.” -Robert Burton

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  • Oriana Fallaci on power

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    “Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.” -Oriana Fallaci

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  • George MacDonald on power

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    “To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power.” -George MacDonald

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  • Ricky Martin on power

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    “These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn’t even know existed.” -Ricky Martin

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  • Annie Lennox on power

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    “I’m appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.” -Annie Lennox

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  • Ehud Olmert on power

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    “I’m not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.” -Ehud Olmert

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  • Charles de Gaulle on power

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    “The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.” -Charles de Gaulle

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  • Eddie Vedder on power

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    “I think that if your approach is one where you don’t want to alienate anybody, you’re going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you’re offering to such an extent that it doesn’t have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.” -Eddie Vedder

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