Power Quotes
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Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats.
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The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.
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My personal medicine bundle is my backpack that I have at the top of the course. Each person's medicine bundle is different and sacred and not to be spoken of. I have some goodies in my bundle. And my power stone is a quartz crystal that I love and wear almost every day.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris.
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A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
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The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.
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It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted.
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It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
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Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.
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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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The papists abuse this text, not only to the end they may commend feigned miracles, which they say are done at the graves of martyrs, but also that they may try and sell us their relics. Why, say thy, shall not the grave, or garment, or the touching of the bones of Peter have as much power to heal, as his shadow had?
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It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.
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Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
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We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.
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I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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Learning how to contract your power and personality is of incredible importance.
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My faith in God is unshakeable, even though till date, I have not experienced any miraculous incident that makes me feel the presence of a higher power. But the trust in God has been engrained into my psyche since my childhood.
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The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.
