Alison Jolly Quotes
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I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
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I really believe in the power of music.
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The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!
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I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
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The supreme power cannot justly take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person or by his representative. … Now what liberty can there be where property is taken away without consent?
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The tyranny alike of church and state has been curbed, and true power is now known to reside where forever it must remain - in the people.
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The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
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I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.
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If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.
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Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
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It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.
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There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
