George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
Dana Rohrabacher
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Doing the right thing has power.
Laura Linney
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
Barry Commoner
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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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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn
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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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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth II
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
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But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
Ferdinand Lassalle
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
Lars von Trier
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
Pardis Sabeti
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I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
Sam Yagan
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
Carla Gugino
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Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
Nancy Gibbs
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The orators - and the despots - have the least power in their cities … since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.
Plato
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Knowledge is Power, and it's very lightweight.
Cody Lundin
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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
Sam Altman
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My ancestors come from a part of southern China where most villages can trace their roots back at least a thousand years or even more. However, as a typical American, I have lived in four cities and moved at least seven times.
Laurence Yep
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I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
Alexander McQueen
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw