Power Quotes
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It is not your strength and your natural power that subjects all these people to you. Do not pretend then to rule them by force or to treat them with harshness. Satisfy their reasonable desires; alleviate their necessities; let your pleasure consist in being beneficent; advance them as much as you can, and you will act like the true king of desire.
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It's a rare film that has staying power. 'A Christmas Story' is not just a funny movie but something that connects with people.
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Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
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At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
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I would look down on my own achievements and make myself smaller for boyfriends and I'll say it's fucking exhausting and I have no time for that. I've been kind of embracing my own power and really getting in touch with my inner goddess.
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I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices.
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Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.
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But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power.
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power.
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The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.
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The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.
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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
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When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.
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Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.
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The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.
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Not the individual man nor a single generation by its own power can erect the bridge that leads to God. Faith is the achievement of many generations, and effort accumulated over many centuries. … There is a collective memory of God in the human spirit, and it is this memory which is the main source of our faith.
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I never thought of political endeavors primarily in terms of power and prestige, and I never thought of economic endeavors primarily in terms of wealth and position.
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Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.
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I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production.
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Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.
