Stephen Lewis (Stephen Henry Lewis) Quotes
I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.
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Doing the right thing has power.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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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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Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
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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.
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Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
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Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.
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This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.
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...'world peace' imposed by a dominant power assisted by a few partners is unlikely... only world peace driven by a recognition of the threat to everyone's survival is the most likely source of salvation...
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.
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Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.
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Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
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The power of 'no' means you're educating people in how to treat you.
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I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.
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A combine is a series of athletic tasks that help a coaching staff measure an athlete's ability to be competitive in a sport. A bobsled combine requires a sprint, broad jump, two-handed shot toss, and a back squat and power clean.
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The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
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Telling the truth - telling thoughtful truths - should not be a revolutionary act. Speaking truths to power should not be sacrificial, but they are.
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When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.
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In Quebec, as women were getting more power, there were the men who agreed with that and the men who were afraid. I think most men are willing to share power with women, but there's fear. Every time you change something, there's a friction.
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Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
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Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
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President Barack Obama is a doer. And we in America will do big things with him.
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I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.
