Power Quotes
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Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
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The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point.
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Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.
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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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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.
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The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.
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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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Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.
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I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
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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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Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
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Fundamental systemic crises are often associated with the decline of the dominant imperial power and its increasing inability to sustain the system over which it had previously presided. The profound instability of the interwar period owed much to Britain's inability to maintain its role.
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When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.
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A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.
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Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
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Power is linked with war, and a society wishing to limit war's ravages can find no other way than by limiting the scope of Power.
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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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Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.
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African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.
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The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
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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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In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers, is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
