Power Quotes
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Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
Maria Edgeworth
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Wherever you live on this earth, and whatever your life's situation may be, I testify to you that the gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Russia is an important power upon which the U.S.A. imposed a Cold War.
Marine Le Pen
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The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Federalism isn’t about states’ rights. It’s about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.
Elizabeth Price Foley
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Some say let's not give them too much power. But we need power to do the things we believe in and change Israeli politics. In coalition talks, we don't want to have to compromise on what we believe in.
Tzipi Livni
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Evangelical proclamation was essentially subversive. Put in danger by it, the forces of the social body have replied by integrating this power of negation, of challenge, by absorbing it.
Jacques Ellul
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I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.
M. Scott Peck
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Love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.
Honore de Balzac
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Never give up your power to another person.
Oprah Winfrey
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Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.
Keanu Reeves
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It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
Jon Voight
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We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.
Chogyam Trungpa
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The 'Grace of Kings' isn't a narrative about a return to some golden age, to a lost status quo ante. It portrays a dynamic world in transition, where the redistribution of power is messy, morally ambivalent, and only lurches toward more justice.
Ken Liu
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Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.
Olga Broumas
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The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
Dennis C. Blair
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The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
Black Elk
