power
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘power’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America’s energy problems never give up.” -Jeff Goodell
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“Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.” -E. Stanley Jones
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“We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don’t. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line… I don’t mean to brush aside the…
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“I consider ‘Dr. Horrible’ a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else’s hands and changing the world.” -Nathan Fillion
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“I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It’s your choice.” -Tony Blair
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“I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son’s school so they know I’m not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from ‘The View.’…
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“I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn’t afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can’t afford power you’re pretty broke. You endure it.” -Jeremy Renner
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“The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.” -Thomas Malthus
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“Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.” -Muqtada al Sadr
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“Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs – and we do so through the power of prayer.” -Nick Rahall
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“Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we’re here: We’re here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.” -Rainn Wilson
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“This is the pain pacemaker. I’ve got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It’s tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you…
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“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.” -Charles de Montesquieu
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“Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.” -Charles Babbage
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“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband’s bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.” -Jon Meacham
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“But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider… That thought was our power.” -Joshua Chamberlain
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“We need to understand that we are not each others’ enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction… that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who…
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“The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.” -Ron Wyden
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“The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that’s what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.” -Craig T. Nelson
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“Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we’re talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade’s non-teen culture has no staying power at all.” -Rob Sheffield
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“What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.” -Freeman Dyson
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“I’ve become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I’m actually doing and what I actually deserve.” -Nate Silver
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“I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.”…
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“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.” -Amy Tan
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“When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.” -Maggie Gallagher
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“In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.” -Jean Baudrillard
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“The corporate woman has been defined as the ‘liberated woman’ and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because she’s so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.” -Kenny Loggins
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“We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.” -Cornel West
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“The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.” -Fareed Zakaria
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“I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.” -Ayelet Waldman
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“As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It’s hard to find those men.” -Jessica Simpson
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“The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.” -Kenneth Kaunda
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“I learned about the market’s power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.” -Jack Kemp
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“I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.” -James Naismith
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“The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
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“What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.” -Lucy Powell
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“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.” -James A. Garfield
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“People didn’t wasn’t the People’s party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.” -Imran Khan
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“The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.” -Sandra Day O’Connor
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“Information can bring you choices and choices bring power – educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.” -Joy Page
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“A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt
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“The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.” -Lewis Mumford
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“Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.” -Herbert Hoover
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“Power doesn’t have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children’s lives.” -Jill Scott
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“The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.” -James Lovelock
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“In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it’s simply because I wasn’t that committed to geometry.” -Twyla Tharp
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“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject – whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber – to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and…
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“There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.” -John Mayer
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“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.” -Salman Rushdie
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“Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn’t have any creative power, nothing. I don’t know that person any more.” -Gwen Stefani
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“I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I’m white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.” -Kid Rock
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“We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power.” -Manuel Puig
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“For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.” -George Whitefield
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“In the sense that you’re not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn’t isn’t unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.” -Peter Singer
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“Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.” -Craig Bruce
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“Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.” -Chris Martin
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“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.” -William Hague
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“That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States – with its unrivaled power and prestige – has begun to restore the country’s and the world’s faith in America as the land of opportunity.” -Dee Dee Myers
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“The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.” -Edward Gibbon
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“The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.” -Charles Evans Hughes
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“Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.” -Charlize Theron
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“Any form of art is a form of power it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.” -Ossie Davis
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“Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.” -Dan Brown
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“Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.” -Maimonides
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“The White House isn’t the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.” -Joe Biden
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“I don’t know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.” -Ofra Haza
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“Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler’s short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.” -James Buchan
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“I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.” -Todd Gitlin
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“Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.” -Jules Renard
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“Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.” -David Ogden Stiers
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“I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.” -Billy Sunday
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“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .” -Anne Bronte
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“It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.” -Wendell Willkie
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“Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.” -Charlotte Davis Kasl
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“Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.” -William J. Clinton
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“I don’t feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they’re extremely well informed.” -Ralph Fiennes
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“Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use – not only text or media but processing power too – will be located remotely.” -Marc Andreessen
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“Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.” -John Greenleaf Whittier
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“Censorship is saying: ‘I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.’ But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.” -Ai…
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“Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.” -Irving Babbitt
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“When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can’t ever start a work of art.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.” -Raymond Chandler
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“Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.” -Paracelsus
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“Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!” -Greg Anderson
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“I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn’t want to be a child.” -Maurice Sendak
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“I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.” -Eli Whitney
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“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.” -Ida Tarbell
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“It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.” -Mariska Hargitay
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“The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.” -John Maynard Keynes
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“There is this power that comes with being famous.” -Rod Stewart
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“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.” -William Pitt
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“If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.” -Henry A. Wallace
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“The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.” -Paul Wellstone
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“In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn’t delineate between legal and illegal.” -Rick Warren
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“Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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“O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!” -Samuel Richardson
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“Your real self – the ‘I am I’ – is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.” -Robert Collier
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“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.” -Saint Basil
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“Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.” -Laurence Sterne
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“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV’s most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format – two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle – a battle for the psychological advantage.” -David Frost
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“Given the daunting challenges that we face, it’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.” -Valerie Jarrett
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“The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.” -Charles Hodge
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“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.” -Jacob Bronowski
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“Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.” -Thomas Love Peacock
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“Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.” -Stokely Carmichael
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“Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.” -Jackie Gleason
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“‘Thank you power’ is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them – so you’ve got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.” -Deborah Norville
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“Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.” -Don DeLillo
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“The message that I gave on the – on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don’t believe that you can’t do it. Everybody wants – everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on.…
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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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“Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.” -Joan Didion
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“Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.” -Gloria Steinem
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“We give you the facts. I told you information is power – knowledge is power. We can’t be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don’t have the facts.” -Tavis Smiley
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“Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.” -Nancy Chodorow
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“Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.” -Pierre Corneille
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“Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!” -Jane Siberry
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“How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?” -Francois Rabelais
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“The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.” -Origen
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“It’s easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.” -Sheryl Sandberg
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“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.” -Wendell Phillips
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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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“The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.” -Charles de Gaulle
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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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“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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“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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“To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power.” -George MacDonald
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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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“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.” -Robert Burton
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“The ‘anti-globalisation movement’ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.” -Noam Chomsky
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“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.” -Hannah Arendt
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“Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.” -Margaret Atwood
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“Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.” -Garrett Hardin
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“There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.” -J. William Fulbright
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“The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“Power is the ability to get things done.” -Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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“Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren’t able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.” -Joan Jett
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“I’m not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.” -Jack Nicholson
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“Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.” -Dag Hammarskjold
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“I’m not out burning bras, but I’m very opinionated about women owning their power.” -Katherine Heigl
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“Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control.” -Michael Bloomberg
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“We cannot create observers by saying ‘observe,’ but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.” -Maria Montessori
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“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” -Milan Kundera
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“The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver’s permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one’s car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.” -Sloane Crosley
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“Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.” -Maggie Kuhn
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“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.” -Joseph Conrad
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“This administration in Washington that’s in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it’s the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.” -Rick Perry
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“A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.” -John Kasich
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“I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.” -Leif Garrett
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“Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.” -Ed Koch
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“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” -David Bailey
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“A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I’ve been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.” -Henri Matisse
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“The power of visibility can never be underestimated.” -Margaret Cho
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“I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential – especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.” -Susan Orlean
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“The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.”…
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“Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.” -Christopher Walken
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