Power Quotes
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History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.
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Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
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Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns
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A king without power is an absurdity.
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Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating.
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Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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What a curious power words have.
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The power of 'no' means you're educating people in how to treat you.
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To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.
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You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.
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Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.
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To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.
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The Gandhian influence dominated freedom struggles on the African continent right up to the 1960s because of the power it generated and the unity it forged among the apparently powerless. Nonviolence was the official stance of all major African coalitions, and the South African A.N.C. remained implacably opposed to violence for most of its existence.
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There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
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Dr. King was also radical in his beliefs about violence. He learned how to successfully fight hatred and violence with the unstoppable power of nonviolence.He once stopped an armed mob, saying: 'We are not advocating violence. We want to love our enemies. I want you to love our enemies. Be good to them. This is what we live by. We must meet hate with love.'
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The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
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There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.
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Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.
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The last time the Diaz-Balarts were removed from power, it took a revolution, and we ended up with Fidel Castro.
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As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
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The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.
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Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.
