Catherine the Great Quotes
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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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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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
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Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
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Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.
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This nation loves singing and loves acting.
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Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
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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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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
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I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.
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I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.
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There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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As we've often said, to the world at large, Marvel looks like a giant octopus that's out to swallow the galaxy - which, by the way, we are. But we are, in fact, a rather small and intimate company.
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
