Power Quotes
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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.
Derrick Jensen
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The last time we were here, we were backing off and cutting back in power and you could feel it. But everybody's the same out there.
Helio Castroneves
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Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
Zach Braff
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You can't out-wrestle me. You can't out-strike me. You don't have more power than me.
Kamaru Usman
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Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
Octavio Paz
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Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit.
Leon Charney
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What once bound him Will make him flee Place of power-joining of five Night Spirit Blood Humanity Earth Joined not to conquer, Instead to overcome Night leads to Spirit Blood binds Humanity And Earth completes.
P. C. Cast
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Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
Simon Wiesenthal
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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
John Ruskin
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One thing is plain in my old age. If you construct a human society in which one individual wields an enormous concentration of power, a high proportion of those who come to be that office bearer will be narcissist psychopaths. Because no-one else is so driven to acquire power.
Craig Murray
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Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.
Georgia Harkness
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The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.
Matt Mullenweg
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
Susan Wiggs
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If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?
Arthur Curley
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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.
Vladimir Putin
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I'm a big fan of intention. That's because I have learned first-hand the power of setting my intention on my goal and making all decisions based off of that intention.
Lewis Howes
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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.
David Lloyd George
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From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.
Alex Campbell
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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?
Khalil Gibran
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Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
John Sununu
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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
John Owen
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Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.
Jerry Bridges