Power Quotes
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The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two.
Chellie Pingree
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Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… Because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations. That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers.
Barack Obama
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If low-temperature fusion does exist and can be perfected, power generation could be decentralized. Each home could heat itself and produce its own electricity, probably using a form of water as fuel. Even automobiles might be cold-fusion powered.
Charles Platt
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Wind and solar power are land-intensive, a green sin, but not energy-dense, and affordable only when heavily subsidized. And wind power must be supplemented with hydrocarbons for reliability.
Mark McKinnon
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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.
David Puttnam
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Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American progress since the Civil War and Civil Rights Acts but that his presidency would result in doors opening in the halls of power as had never been seen before by black America.
Douglas Wilder
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In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.
Ahmed Zewail
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Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
Christian Lous Lange
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You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
Napoleon Hill
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Faith is cold as ice.Why are little ones born only to sufferfor the want of immunity, or a bowl of rice?Well, who would hold a price on the heads of the innocent childrenif there's some immortal power to control the dice? - Roll The Bones (1991)
Neil Peart
Rush
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So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.
Frederick Jackson Turner
