Ralph Ellison Quotes
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.Ralph Ellison
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If you're famous, you're not free.
Tadanobu Asano -
I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
Nancy Lublin -
We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Abraham Lincoln -
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Hannah Arendt -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
Abraham Lincoln -
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
Nancy Gibbs -
I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
J. William Fulbright -
All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.
Carles Puigdemont -
Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
Walter Cronkite -
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
Harry Browne -
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe -
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 -
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
Os Guinness -
We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
Carl Karcher
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Israel undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.
Clare Short -
It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.
Michael Bolton -
Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.
Jim Caviezel -
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison