Power Quotes
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He alone is aware of the truth, and if all men were aware of it, there would be an end of life. In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. But his kingship is kingship over nothing. It brings no powers and privileges, only loss of faith and exhaustion of the power to act. Its world is a world without values.
Colin Wilson
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If you listen to PWR BTTM, or to Gloss, If you look at me on stage, it can make you feel less alone. It makes you feel like you're a queer person and you have this singular power, but it's not like we're a brand. We're just real.
Ben Hopkins
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Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
Bella Abzug
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The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.
Zendaya
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Love is the greatest power and it is, if natural, the highest 'invisible food' from the infinite for soul and body.
Arnold Ehret
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This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.
Barbara Jordan
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Daniel Webster
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Talent alone is not enough. In the end, Guardian, it is desire that creates a master vintner, makes him into a Vineart. A passion, not for power, or strength, but for the grapes themselves. Anything else leads to ruin.
Laura Anne Gilman
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We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
Lewis H. Lapham
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With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power.
Billy Mitchell
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Both EarthEcho and Seventh Generation understand that young people have the power to change the world - one home, one school and one community at a time.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
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I think people in power have a vested interest to oppose critical thinking.
Carl Sagan
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I don't know about you, but I've saved cards that old high school flames wrote me as well as those that employees have written me over the years. The power of genuine, customized appreciation will never lose its value, even in a gloomy economy... in fact, it's probably what we're all thirsty for in this desert of a depression.
Chip Conley
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Remembering the past gives power to the present.
Fae Myenne Ng
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There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
Ani DiFranco
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I went to Salford Tech. They did a two-year performing arts course. I went there singing and dancing - I had a terrible time. I turned up in green dungarees and German power boots. I was into prog rock at the time - Gong and Hawkwind - and I was clumping around.
Maxine Peake
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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.
Emraan Hashmi
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One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
Jane Smiley
