Power Quotes
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As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty.
Marc Veasey
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“In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.”
Anne Royall
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I feel like my career is to speak truth to power, and a lot of times, that sounds like troublemaking. If speaking truth is troublemaking, then yes, I will consider myself a professional at that.
Luvvie Ajayi
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I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.
Sarah Hall
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I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.
Alex Gibney
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When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.
Epictetus
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Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Michael Foot
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It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.
John Milton
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Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
Joichi Ito
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
Tacitus
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Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet have surrounded us with worldliness. . . . We are fortunate to have been blessed with a special power to direct us in making important decisions between right and wrong.
L. Tom Perry
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Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
Hal Draper
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There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
T. D. Jakes
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I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.
Kevin Harrington
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If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of and use the Holy Spirit; but if we think of Him in the biblical way as a divine Person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, 'How can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?'
R. A. Torrey
