Power Quotes
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Destiny isn't something you make as you're told. By overcoming difficulties, life and this whole world can advance forward. That's what destiny is for. A world that has lost the power to advance forward, will be destroyed - Aladdin
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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The biggest single thing China needs to do is build an emergent middle class and domestic consumption, and the best way to do that is through pension and health-care reform, and currency reform to establish purchasing power among its citizens.
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Your power comes from the songs.
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All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
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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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People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
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African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
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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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Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.
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I wish I had acted better. I wish I had been the kind of sister who was patient enough to show my brother the proper spelling for 'Power Rangers.'
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You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.
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When it comes to energy, cost isn't everything - but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
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Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.
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Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.
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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.
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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
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Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.
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The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.
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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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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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Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
