Power Quotes
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There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
Ariel Dorfman
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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Anthony Shadid
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I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
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Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
Marianne Williamson
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You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.
Whitney M. Young
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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.
James Lovelock
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.
R. A. Torrey
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Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.
Andrew O'Hagan
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For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the mind. But for a while now all are alive, believing that in a single poignant hour we did say all that we could ever say in a great flowing out of radiant power. It was like seeing and then going blind.
Hermann Hesse
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The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
Sidney Sheldon
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Her message to women and girls of the world You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power-not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.
Jennifer Beals
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The law always limits every power it gives.
David Hume
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Forgotten was presented to me by the drama department at LWT as a concept and I found it immediately intriguing and very powerful. I was completely led by the power of the piece and its dramatic potential.
Amanda Burton
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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
Alex Campbell
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I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.
Dorothy Hamill
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There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
John Tillotson
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All nature works, and then rests; works and rests. I caught its rhythm and worked and rested with it. When I felt that inertia stealing over me, I rested; and while resting my power recuperated - the tide rose in me.
Elizabeth Towne
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The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.
Thaddeus Stevens
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I like his strength, I like his gamesmanship. He sees an edge, he'll take it in a short fashion. He's got great power.
Bret Bielema
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Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.
James Russell Lowell
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You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
Bryant H. McGill
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Our customer base isn't just people saying, 'I'm an environmentalist, I'm in my Birkenstocks, I went to Woodstock.' Solar is a bipartisan technology. Republicans like solar; conservatives like solar. Over 30% of our customers are veterans. There's something very American about being able to produce power on your own rooftop.
Lynn Jurich