Steve Rushin Quotes
In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.
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It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
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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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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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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 most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.
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It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.
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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match to my writing ability.
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We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
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'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'
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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb.
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Don't be afraid of your own power.
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It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
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The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
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I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.
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In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.
