Power Quotes
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My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
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People of power have to show empathy and kindness to the young.
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Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Opportunity has power over all things.
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As the Lord put on the body, leaving behind all principality and power, so Christians put on the Holy Spirit, and are at rest.
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Technology can be useful to organise a large number of people online and offline against the common goal of getting a particular dictator out of power. But at the end of the day, somebody still has to run for president with a different last name and deliver for the population.
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A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.
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The power of incumbency cannot be underestimated.
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Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.
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We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas.
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Power is always a corrupting influence.
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We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.
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One should hardly have to tell academicians that information is a valuable resource: knowledge is power. And yet this occupies a slum dwelling in the town of economics. Mostly it is ignored.
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No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.
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The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
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You never know what life can hand you, but YOU have the choice and power to give back love and kindness in all you do and how you treat others.
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I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study, and Jackson was good enough for me. I liked the way he kept his right foot forward, being a left-handed hitter, and his left foot back. That gave him more body and shoulder power than the average hitter has.
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I wish I had acted better. I wish I had been the kind of sister who was patient enough to show my brother the proper spelling for 'Power Rangers.'
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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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I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.
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But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
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Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
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We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
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He stayed up the middle with a couple, which is good to see, ... Sometimes he gets a little too pull happy, with the added power he has.
