Power Quotes
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Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.
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America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.
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Some think I have lost that poetical ardour and fire 'tis said I once had- the fact is, perhaps I have; but, instead of that, I hope I shall substitute a more thoughtful and quiet power.
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I've knocked a ton of guys out. I know the power I have and the advantages I have against the best in the world.
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You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it.
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The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.
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A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.
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Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.
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The American Politician has developed into the gutless master of procrastination with a maximum of non-committal statement and the barest minimum of action. This moral vacuum is exceeded only by the apathetic public who allows him to stay in power.
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
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Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.
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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.
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Power and beauty come from a very deep place.
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Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
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I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
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Especially in the food business, critics take very seriously how much power they have. They can shut a restaurant down.
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Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power.
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I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.
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The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.
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We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
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I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.
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We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.
