Edward Brooke Quotes
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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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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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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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 free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
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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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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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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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Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.
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To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.
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We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
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I really believe in the power of music.
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-10-11). Linus Torvalds - Slashdot Interview. Retrieved on 2012-10-11.
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The idea of the Internet as sort of open and democratic and free and with no hierarchy, the libertarian beginnings as it were, with peer-to-peer networks... I'd sort of like for everyone to just admit that we're beyond that now.
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The Day the Palestinians become institutionalized, I will no longer be on their side.
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
