Power Quotes
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The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
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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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I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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Power encompasses patience. Impatience speaks about weakness.
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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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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
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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.
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To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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You can't out-wrestle me. You can't out-strike me. You don't have more power than me.
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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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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
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There is a lot more to me than just walking guys down. I have speed, I have power, I have a crazy uppercut, I can move to the side. There are a lot of ways I can get it done.
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The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians
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Being a woman is power. Just because we live in a male-dominated world doesn't mean that you're incapable or less than a man.
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The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
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The older I get, the more I realize that you don't have to be around people you don't want to be around, and you don't have to be in a situation you don't want to be in. You have the power to rise up and leave.
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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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Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.
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Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.
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The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.
