Power Quotes
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
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I learned something, when you have Nazi uniform on, why people were so evil and used their power. Because it's a very powerful uniform, it's like boots and black and silver and skeletons everywhere, on your hat, on your shoulder.
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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
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Normally in spy movies, the person that the hero deals with is at the centre of power, surrounded by video screens, and they're old and grizzled. I'm no stranger to that dynamic.
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Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.
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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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The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.
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A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
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I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.
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America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.
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Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.
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Donald Trump's America can be friend and ally, or at least an indifferent power that concentrates on itself and minds its own business.
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That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'
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Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.
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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.
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Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.
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Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.
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In the Senate they have as many power as we decide to grant them, do you understand it? If we don't allow them anything, then they have nothing. That which they call ''power'' is made of shadows
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The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.
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Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
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The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life.
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The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.
Chad Hurley -
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
