Power Quotes
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Give parents and school superintendents and school boards the power to decide if they need that money for school construction or if they need it for teacher training or if they need it for new computers.
Dennis Hastert
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They the government really want to maintain power. At the same time, they refuse to communicate. They refuse to have good intentions. They refuse to be sincere. How can that last?
Ai Weiwei
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Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
Peter Thiel
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Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.
Quincy Jones
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I still believe in the power of government to make lives better, and I believe that if someone is willing to take a stand, other people will follow.
Gina Raimondo
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I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
Plato
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A lot of females, they want to do the things that I do. Some females are so closed, but they want to be open. Some girls, they want to feel that power that I tell them that I have. I tell women that I have power over these men, that I use these men.
Cardi B
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A feeling of confidence and personal power comes from facing challenges and overcoming them.
Brian Tracy
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For me, coming from the women's movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space and in gender relations as well. Wherever there's power, there's politics.
Elif Safak
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I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family in power and survival.
Peter Morgan
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....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.
Andrea Bocelli
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton
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The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.
James Fallows
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When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as they are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. You find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.
Chogyam Trungpa
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There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.
Tiger Woods
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That’s power, Mitch, absolute power. And you know the old saying. Power ennobles. Absolute power ennobles absolutely.
Frederik Pohl
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Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
C. S. Lewis
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We have barely tapped the power that is ours. We are more than we know.
Charlene Spretnak
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Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.
David Brock
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The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.
Barack Obama
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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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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
Dalai Lama
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In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.
Kenneth Fisher