Power Quotes
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Once the church is ready to associate with instituted power it is obliged to associate with all and sundry forms of the state. The scandal is that each time the church seeks to justify both its adaptation and the existing power. It continues to legitimize the state and to be an instrument of its propaganda.
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By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.
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Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.
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That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.'
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Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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The power to investigate is a great public trust.
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Real power is having the ability and the resources to tell an amazing story or to say 'yes' to a filmmaker and change not only the filmmaker's life but the world.
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The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
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The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.
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Solar storms cause power outages. They pose a hazard to satellites. They might interfere with your GPS or send your compass a couple of degrees off course. But I don't think solar storms are a life-threatening event.
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We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.
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I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.
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A dictum Beckett quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.
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I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
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Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.
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We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.
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Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power.
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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
