Power Quotes
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I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.
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You always go back to what's been successful when under pressure but I'd be surprised if Clive was interested in the job. Unless, of course, he's got power over everything.
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The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.
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The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.
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Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
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Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power.
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When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.
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The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.
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The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.
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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
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Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft. The greater your vocabulary the more effective your writing. We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.
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Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power.
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This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts.
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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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What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
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Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical.
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I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.
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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
