Power Quotes
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If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many, many people on the other end of the world, you have absolute power and you're not prepared for it.
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I dream of an Heir who shall be a Dragon-Whisperer, a Swordfighter, a Man who talks with Monsters and who will harness the power of Thor's thunder itself...
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I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.
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I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
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The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.
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Cultural essentialism is, thus, intimately tied to power relations. Fixity, homogeneity and separateness are prioritised within an essentialist framework. Therefore, part of any effort to resist essentialism is recognising diversity within difference, contingency, mutability and connectedness.
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By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.
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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
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Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
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'At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.'
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Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
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I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
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Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.
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I really believe in the power of the individual to make change, and our family is a real collection of individuals.
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Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Power tends to corrupt - so we should, in both the public and the private spheres, be on guard against, and erect sturdy guardrails against, the corruptions of power.
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When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power.
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How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.
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If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me
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The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and interactions that occur within the network. The Facebook social graph fuels our mantra 'Try it for free', 'Share it if you like it', 'Buy it if you love it.'
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My attitude would be the same as the attitude of the working class in Germany when the Nazis came to power. It does not mean that because at some stage you elect a government that you tolerate its existence. You oppose it...I will oppose a second-term Thatcher government as vigorously as I possibly can.
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I believe in a higher power. I believe in inspiration.
