Power Quotes
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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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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.
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With yoga, it works every part of the body and increases range of motion. People think you get super flexible and you lose your power in sport. I'm getting back to normal because I'm so wound up and tight.
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.
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We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.
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The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
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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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The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller.
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Teaching people to become like Jesus, outside of the power of Jesus, dishonors Jesus.
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Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
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By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil.
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Immigration specifically was laid out in the Congress, giving the power of Congress to create a uniform system of naturalization.
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I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
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Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."
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All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
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The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
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Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
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The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
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Anyhow, it is a different situation now to what it was then; Clemenceau had power; I shall wait until Winston is bust.
