Power Quotes
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It sucked to make my own CDs. I'm bad at that. It sucks to figure out how to power my amp. I don't know that stuff.
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When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.
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'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.
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Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will - will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
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I think that in his 39 short years of life, Malcolm X came to symbolize Black urban America, its culture, its politics, its militancy, its outrage against structural racism and at the end of his life, a broad internationalist vision of emancipatory power far better than any other single individual that he shared with DuBois and Paul Robeson, a pan-Africanist internationalist perspective.
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Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.
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I want to lead people toward finding hope through the purity and healing power of metal.
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People are starting to reflect upon the power of emotions on illness and I have always felt a direct connection between emotion and body. It is fascinating that neurologists are starting to tell their patients that yes, they are sick, the symptoms are there, but it is probably happening because an emotion is not coming out the way it could and should.
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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I don't want to belong to any league. I am in a league of my own. I don't want any tags associated with me because I know when the media associates tags with you, they also have the power to remove those tags tomorrow.
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I do think that every super power on the globe has a very poor record on human rights.
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The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system is not concentrated in a few hands, whether in Washington or in high finance or in any single group or constituency.
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more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.
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Many of the original New Deal programs required heavy manual labor. WPA workers built hundreds of schools, health clinics, roads, park facilities, and community centers. Much of what we now call our 'infrastructure' - highways, buildings, power plants, etc. - is here thanks to thousands of WPA workers.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.
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The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary figures in the public imagination-vast, overshadowing behemoths whose colossal power seemed to reach everywhere.
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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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Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid.
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God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.
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I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.
