Power Quotes
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You may have the power to slander, but I have the power not to listen to you.
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Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
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When in doubt, grab power.
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We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
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There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
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The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
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Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.
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The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.
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The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.
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Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
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It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?
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I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of 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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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.
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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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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
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There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.
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Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.
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The power of thought,-the magic of the mind!
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To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
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All of this has to be understood as part of a process leading ultimately to a treaty that will give an international body power over our domestic laws.
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And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.
