Power Quotes
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There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.
Matthew Pearl
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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.
George Stigler
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The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Bob Melvin
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The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.
Napoleon Hill
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My grandmother told me, "Words are holy. Treat them with respect. There's power there.
Alma Hogan Snell
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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!
Jules Verne
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Independent content these days can be more successful than previously because of the power of social media. However, there are still systems in place to make sure independent artists don't get as far as signed ones.
Lilly Singh
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The law always limits every power it gives.
David Hume
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It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought...
Steve Jobs
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The older I get, the more I realize that you don't have to be around people you don't want to be around, and you don't have to be in a situation you don't want to be in. You have the power to rise up and leave.
Aaron Bruno
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The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
Joe Biden
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
Euripides
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We are proving that Latinos have the power to connect with an audience on a global level without having to leave our identity behind.
J Balvin
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I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Johnny Depp
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Marianne Williamson
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Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."
Pablo Picasso
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Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
Chuck Hagel
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
John Stuart Mill
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No power in the country can dissolve the government.
Ashraf Ghani
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
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One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.
Michel Foucault
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When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
Jimmy Reid