Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
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In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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I could never take orders from anyone.
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
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In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.
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The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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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.
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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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It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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If you are not used to the g-forces, it can really mess with you. There's this overwhelming power that sweeps through the cabin. Your senses get pegged out. You're looking for comfort or safety but you won't find any. All you can do is keep breathing.
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That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.
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There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.
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I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.
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In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.
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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
