Power Quotes
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You may have the power to slander, but I have the power not to listen to you.
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I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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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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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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The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation.
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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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Power is as power does.
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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?
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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 Holy Spirit! This is the Spirit's role: to bring Christ's work to fulfillment. Enriched with the Spirit's gifts, you will have the power to move beyond the piecemeal, the hollow utopia, the fleeting, to offer the consistency and certainty of Christian witness!
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Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of inner trust.
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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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Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and wishes. For they're the foundation from which great things begin.
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We have more than two options... a critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power.... Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.
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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.
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I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.
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Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
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By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will.
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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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I personally think 'Power' is much more similar to 'The Sopranos' in that it deals with a character who is leading a double life and wants to become legitimate.
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The question wasn’t when things had changed. It was this: When had he decided to simply accept society’s rules, to play the game precisely as it had been laid out by those who already had power?
