Power Quotes
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The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.
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Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!
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It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.
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Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
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Knowledge is power only if you use it.
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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.
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If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.
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Think of me as an impetuous Hegel, drunk with power, and also, regular drunk.
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The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
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That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'
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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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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
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The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.
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Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
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Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
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Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
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Part of the elements of the electoral college is creation. Certainly it was created in slave states and them wanting to balance power, but there's not a specific set of the country always determining who the president is.
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To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.
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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.
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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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I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.
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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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It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
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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.
