Power Quotes
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The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.
Bob Barton -
I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.
Joe Morton
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We have more than two options... a critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power.... Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.
John Ralston Saul -
In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.
Anthony Doerr -
Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.
Elizabeth Lesser -
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
Euripides -
Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.
Emilia Lanier -
When you pray, do not use vain repetition. But remember, not all repetition is vain. The Lord cannot hear enough how wonderful are his works and mighty is his power. Because they are and it is. That is not vanity. Those are just facts.
Anthony W. Ivins
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I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.
Darryl Dawkins -
Beauty is a horrible power.
Faina Ranevskaya -
It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.
John F. Kennedy -
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.
Whitney M. Young -
The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.
Michio Kaku -
There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
Madame de Stael
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I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics -
Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
Michelangelo -
Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
Lois Wyse -
Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
Victor Hugo -
I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.
Dorothy Hamill -
Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.
Colin S. Smith
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Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.
Eric Schlosser -
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
Sun Ra -
The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.
John Podhoretz -
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw