J. G. Holland Quotes
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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I can clap with one hand.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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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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Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
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It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
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In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.
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...I saw it clearly. The tragedy of our time is to have lost the ability to feel loss, the inability of power to rise to its responsibility for human decency....I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace'.
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I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
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Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
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The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has see the defenselessness of nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing.
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
