Power Quotes
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Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they're old and grizzled. I'm no stranger to that dynamic.
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Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
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I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection (the title of my book), which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.
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I became an engineer because I believe in the power of technology to enrich our lives.
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I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem.
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I wasn't a shrinking violet when I joined Fox News. I didn't have any power at Fox - I had no power in the TV industry - but I had been a lawyer for nine years who had practiced employment law.
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Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it.
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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
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For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.
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American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.
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We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.
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Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.
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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
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Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
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I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.
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What is right or duty without power? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband - a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.
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No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.
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...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
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I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
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'The Shepherd Boy’s Song', in Part II, Ch. VI : The Valley of Humiliation; comparable to: 'I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down can fall no lower', Samuel Butler, Hudibras (1663), Part i, Canto iii, Line 877
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Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.
