Power Quotes
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How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes.
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A Word that Breathes Distinctly Has not the Power to Die
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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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Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.
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Power is making a statement about who you are.
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It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
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Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.
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[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.
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I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
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Futurists falter because they belittle the power of religious paradigms, deeming them either too literal or too fantastic.
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For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.
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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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Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.
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I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.
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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
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When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.
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Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union - to improve it is the task of us all.
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Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.
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An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
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Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.
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Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
