Umberto Eco Quotes
Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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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.
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Doing the right thing has power.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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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.
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
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I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
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All the media are horrible.
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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
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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.
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It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
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Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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Print reporters have the opportunity to go so much more in depth in certain stories than television reporters do because they're working on stories for months at a time.
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Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.
