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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“Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.” -Pericles
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“The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.” -William Booth
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“Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.” -George A. Smith
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“American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.” -Camille Paglia
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“Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.” -Peace Pilgrim
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“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” -Marian Wright Edelman
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“Let’s hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won’t buy.” -Simon Mainwaring
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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” -John Acton
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“Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.” -Susan Taylor
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“Before ‘Schindler’s List,’ I wouldn’t have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.” -Liam Neeson
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“We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.” -Neville Chamberlain
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“What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.” -Eric Cantona
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“Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.” -Anthony Trollope
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“It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.” -Pierre de Fermat
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“It’s okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that’s evil?” -Glenn Danzig
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“To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.” -Norman Thomas
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“Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.” -Samuel Smiles
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“When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.” -Mark Zuckerberg
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“The term ‘genre’ eventually becomes pejorative because you’re referring to something that’s so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.” -Christopher Nolan
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“The party in power, like Jonah’s gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.” -Davy Crockett
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“I’d always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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“The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.” -Henry Hazlitt
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“The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.” -Jerry Rubin
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“Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.” -Ice Cube
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“There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people’s money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.” -Steve Forbes
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“Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.” -Pete Stark
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“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.” -William Henry Harrison
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“In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.” -Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say ‘this is one nation under God.’” -Pat Robertson
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“The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists.” -Herbert Read
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“When I got to France I realized I didn’t know very much about food at all. I’d never had a real cake. I’d had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn’t have anything like that in it – it’s…
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“When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.” -Shakti Gawain
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“You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.” -Black Elk
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“Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.” -Emile M. Cioran
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“Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.” -Tom Hanks
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“The point of power is always in the present moment.” -Louise L. Hay
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“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.” -Edward Thorndike
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“Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.” -Joseph Prince
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“What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.” -Henry George
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“The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one’s inner power.” -Xun Zi
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“Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.” -Nadine Gordimer
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“The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.” -Dan Quayle
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“But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.” -Lafcadio Hearn
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“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.” -Beatrix Potter
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“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.” -Paul Engle
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“In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.” -George Mason
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“What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.” -Isabel Allende
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“Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.” -Martin Scorsese
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“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” -Toni Morrison
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“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.” -Benjamin Spock
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“Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!” -David O. McKay
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“All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.” -Francis Thompson
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“We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.” -Jean de la Bruyere
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“There’s a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.” -Dennis Prager
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“The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.” -Blaine Lee
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“Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.” -David Seabury
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“It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.” -Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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“The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.” -Carol P. Christ
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“When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.” -J. G. Holland
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“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.” -Ralph Cudworth
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“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” -Eleonora Duse
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“No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.” -Susan B. Anthony
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“I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road.” -Benjamin F. Wade
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“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” -Charles A. Beard
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“If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone’s day.” -Julianna Margulies
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“The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.” -Spiro T. Agnew
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“Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.” -Andrea Dworkin
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“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.” -Pope Paul VI
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“Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.” -Madeleine Albright
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“He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.” -Charles Kingsley
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“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.” -Henry Adams
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“Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.” -Madame de Stael
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“Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.” -Andrew Jackson
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“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.” -Daniel Webster
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“I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don’t even know are available to us.” -Michael J. Fox
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“And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.” -Paul Ryan
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“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.” -Thomas Hughes
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“Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.” -William Gaddis
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“Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.” -Christy Turlington
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“It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It’s the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That’s the power of the gospel.”…
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“Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.” -Edgar Winter
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“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.” -John Jay
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“The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.” -Jeremy Bentham
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“Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.” -Harry Segall
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“Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
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“In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential… it’s no different in the financial realm.” -Suze Orman
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“But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn’t be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can…
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“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” -David Brin
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“Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.” -Michel Foucault
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“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.” -Vaclav Havel
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“Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown’s gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.” -Jerry Saltz
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“I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
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“To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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“It’s being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power – if you’re willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.” -Whoopi Goldberg
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“Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it’s really like magic because you transform reality for people.” -Louis C. K.
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“A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.” -Jean Paul
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“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.” -John Quincy Adams
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“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.” -Lord Acton
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“The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.” -Thomas J. Watson
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“The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.” -Tom Stoppard
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“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man’s adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.” -E. B. White
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“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” -Meryl Streep
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“I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.” -Saint Teresa of Avila
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“People who avoid the brick walls – all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.” -David Bowie
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“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.” -Doug Coupland
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“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.” -Christopher Reeve
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“Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“It’s okay to be a fat man. It’s prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.” -Camryn Manheim
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“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.” -Emile Coue
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“I think it’s child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it’s at the cost of someone’s natural development. It’s already hard enough to develop.” -Alanis Morissette
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“‘Charm’ – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm.” -Havelock Ellis
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“The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.” -John Stuart Mill
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“Militant feminists are pro-choice because it’s their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.” -Walter Scott
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“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.” -Yoko Ono
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“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.” -Herodotus
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“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.” -David Brinkley
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“I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It’s more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.” -Diana…
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“Words derive their power from the original word.” -Meister Eckhart
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“Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money – especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that’s why we lost.” -Eric Cantor
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“Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.” -Vladimir Lenin
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“I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” -Arthur C. Clarke
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“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.” -Edward de Bono
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“There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.” -Doris Humphrey
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“The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.” -William Penn
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“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.” -Theodor Adorno
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“It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.” -Eric Hoffer
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“I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation’s interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation’s interest.” -George W. Bush
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“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.” -Jonathan Swift
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“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.” -Vine Deloria, Jr.
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“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.” -Simone Weil
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“I love being a wife and homemaker – because it’s my choice. My husband doesn’t expect me to do it. I don’t mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.” -Salma Hayek
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“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.” -Brigham Young
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“In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.” -Robert Hall
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“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.” -Stanley Kubrick
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“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.” -Horace Mann
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“People demand freedom only when they have no power.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.” -Sitting Bull
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“I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.” -Patricia Cornwell
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“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.” -William Ellery Channing
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“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’” -Abigail Adams
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“If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.” -Thomas Aquinas
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“Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?” -Mason Cooley
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“My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom’s not, and I’m not. But I believe in God, and that there’s a higher power and an intelligence that’s bigger than us and that we can rely on. It’s not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.” -Ellen…
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“A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don’t want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous ‘girl power’ sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it’s a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind…
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“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.” -Akhenaton
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“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.” -Scott Adams
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“I’m learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.” -Zoe Saldana
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“If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.” -Tom Clancy
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“With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It’s nothing new.” -Judd Rose
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“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.” -Kofi Annan
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“I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.” -Alice Walker
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“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.” -William Hazlitt
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“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.” -Jack Black
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“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?” -W. E. B. Du Bois
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“I’m not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that…
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“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” -Stendhal
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“Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.” -William Cobbett
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“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” -Indira Gandhi
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“By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.” -George Santayana
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“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.” -Joseph Addison
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“Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.” -Alvin Adams
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