Power Quotes
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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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After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
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I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids.
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Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star has always been blonde.
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The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.
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People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.
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Trump's rise to power, fueled by hatred and portending crisis, threatens to eviscerate our constitutional system of government.
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I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
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The whole Jacket thing is so much about us playing together and creating this circle of power.
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If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.
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It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear.
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Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
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You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.
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The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.
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The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand on a balcony without getting shot still maintains its power to awe and inspire.
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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
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We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.
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Sometimes it’s not about speed about power, it’s about up here man points to his head. All these guys are not with me mentally.
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There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
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If you have market power like Nike, you can set terms that are much tougher because athletes value the endorsement of Nike - it means as much to them as it does to the company.
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What people with disabilities want is to relate. This is something unique. It makes people who are closed up in the head become human. The wonderful thing about people with disabilities is that when someone important comes, they don’t care. They care about the relationship. So they have a healing power, a healing power of love.
