Power Quotes
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“Poor, dear old Mack, he was ninety-eight per cent perfect. His two percent failing was that he had absolutely no idea of the value or the power of arbitration. He was the veteran of a hundred battles, and I never once could say to the other fellow, 'Your dog started it.”
William S. Hart
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I figured things would be better in Washington, that I'd find a lot of people I admired and belonged with. Washington is worse, Paul-Ilium to the tenth power. Stupid, arrogant, self-congratulatory, unimaginative, humorless men. And the women, Paul-the dull wives feeding on the power and glory of their husbands.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell
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Power for all includes people who are interested in getting a connection. It cannot be for people who don't want the connection. Having said that, I am confident everybody will apply for power once they are sure that they will not be short-charged.
Piyush Goyal
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Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
James Dyson
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Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness. If you're a millionaire and hate your family, hate your friends and your life, then what is the point? You're just a person with a lot of money and power who is not happy.
Dat Phan
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Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill
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The fact is that middle managers have an effective veto power over whatever risk management system is created. If they don't buy it, it won't happen.
Adrian Slywotzky
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.”
Anne Royall
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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.
Barack Obama
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I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.
Erin Cahill
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I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.
Joseph Altuzarra
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I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.
Martha Beck
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Yes, there were piano bands and great rock pianists, from Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard to Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, and Elton John. But something about the electric guitar speaks of more than music - it epitomizes and gives voice to the rebellion, power, and sexuality of rock.
Daniel Levitin
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The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.
John Abizaid
