Power Quotes
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In America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception - namely, the fiscal irresponsibility that prevails when, and only when, hard-line conservatives are in power.
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There is no security for any power unless it be a security in which its neighbours have an equal share.
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'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.
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The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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Strong emotional connections between individuals, customers, and salespeople that trust each other will always be 10 times more powerful than the most expensive ad campaign. That's the power social media makes possible.
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Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.
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Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
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When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.
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I think that there is such power with the live performance of it - so much of what 'Motown' is about is the live performance aspect, really. The power of our production is really the music and the performances.
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The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.
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Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.
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Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
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I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
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The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.
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Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity.
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Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.
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My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.
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The settle, followed by 10 for power will give you that grasp on their nuts that you need. Once you've got that, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze and squeeze and don't ever let up! You'll just be breaking 1500 meters down when you hear them yelp. Listen for the yelp, and then bring it into the dock.
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Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
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To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
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The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
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Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.
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Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.
