Power Quotes
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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
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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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Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.
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Whites have traded their culture for power.
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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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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.
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In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers, is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.
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Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
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What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.
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What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
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Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to the service of the insiders who control it. Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example. And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.
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Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.
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Sanity - that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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But if he's able to consistently wait on the ball and see it a little longer and have a shorter stroke to the ball, the strikeouts can be cut down without losing his great power.
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I became an engineer because I believe in the power of technology to enrich our lives.
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There are still Negro elites. Many of them are obviously much richer, and perhaps a little more integrated into what remains a white power structure. But those old rituals from the social clubs, to the broadly segregated white and black schools, to an obsessive interest in ancestry, all of that does still exist. Look: we are a class-bound society.
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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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For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
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It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.
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No country's policies are eternal; they do vary. People are growing old, and a new generation is coming to power. In a year's time, a government can look different. You can't influence them if you don't talk to them.
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The thing I love about Marvel in general is that they deal with people. They deal with the human being first: Who is inside the suit? Who is the person that obtained this power or this ability?
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Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.
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From the perspective of those who are entitled, the problems begin when those they despise do not go along with-and have the power and wherewithal to not go along with-the perceived entitlement.
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Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog responding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.
