Power Quotes
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
Man Ray
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The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
Socrates
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
Walter Annenberg
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman
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Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
Edgar Lee Masters
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Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
Sam Kean
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The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
Johan Huizinga
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I am a huge believer - I always have been - in the power of comedy. That comedy will break hatred and will bring understanding.
Jeffrey Tambor
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As a senator, I will prioritize overturning the current system and restoring openness and integrity to our government to return power to the people.
Conner Eldridge
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For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!
Ellen Key
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It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.
Anacharsis
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There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
Randa Haines
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Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
Ossie Davis
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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
J. G. Holland
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Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
Charlotte Kasl
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There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.
David Korten
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If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
James Boswell
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A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she’s not only a mother, she’s not only a sister, she’s not only a wife. But a girl has the – she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.
Malala Yousafzai
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I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.
August Wilson
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria
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In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin Spock