Power Quotes
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It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.
Ian MacKaye
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However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you are the sky. A cloud comes and dominates the sky. But the sky is still the sky. Depression tells you everything is going to get worse, but that's a symptom. Don't give depression power - constantly discredit it.
Matt Haig
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The symbol is the tool which gives man his power, and it is the same tool whether the symbols are images or words, mathematical signs or mesons.
Jacob Bronowski
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It’s not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
Bella Abzug
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If I was a part of secret ninja group my power would be the power of apology. I would just apologize emphatically and freely. And my mech might just be a phone to send apologetic emails from.
Zach Woods
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My heart revolts against the spectre of Almighty indifferent to the pain of sentient being. My conscience rebels against the injustice, the cruelty, the inequality that surrounds me on every side. But believe in man, in man’s redeeming power, in man’s remoulding energy, in man’s approaching triumph through knowledge, love and work.
Annie Besant
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Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power
Baba Hari Dass
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Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.
Mary Beard
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Albert Bandura
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I've had a very interesting life. There are ways of handling the complexities. I'm willing to take on the responsibilities as a father, as a producer, as an actor; and I enjoy that. I've always been changing and evolving and growing. There's no pinnacle of power where you can sit back and relax.
Tom Cruise
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The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.
Ahmet Davutoglu
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True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.
Dalai Lama
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Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.
Jerry Yang
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The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.
William O. Douglas
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Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.
Allen Grossman
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I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
Maurice Sendak
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The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.
S. D Gordon
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I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.
Marcia Cross
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“But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.
Mac Anderson
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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
Benjamin Graham
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People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
Marilyn Ferguson