Power Quotes
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Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.
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President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
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I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.
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Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and he's your new roommate.' You could see right away that this young man was a natural. He had those real big hands, great power and speed and would catch everything hit in his direction. He's the best center fielder that ever lived, no question.
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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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If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.
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The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
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The power we call God defies description.
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Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.
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What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.
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Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
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Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
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Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
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Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.
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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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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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Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
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The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
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I underestimated the power of 'Diego.'
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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...
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Maybe thermoelectricity will be able to power a tablet someday.
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I have always been of the opinion that when those in power are promoting actions and ideals that risk harming or impeding us, people should stand up to this.
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On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.
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The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.
