Cornelius Vanderbilt Quotes
It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
Nancy Pelosi
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
Ulrich Beck
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
Barry Commoner
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The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Abraham Lincoln
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
Hans Rosling
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
Ferdinand Foch
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama
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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.
Nancy Gibbs
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I'm 34 years old. In most jobs, your early 30s to early 40s are your power years.
Sam Yagan
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'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.
Carla Gugino
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
Jackie Kennedy
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Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.
Michel Foucault
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You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Jane Roberts
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I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.
Mark Burnett
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Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.
Dan Rather
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It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
