Power Quotes
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I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.
William Hurlbut
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It seemed so obvious that abusing the power of the page, and that was a phrase that was bandied about, 'the power of the page', that any abuse would be career suicide.
Bob Merrill
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In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.
Steve Rushin
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No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
Ezra Taft Benson
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I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power – doing things you could never actually do in life – like flying and doing backflips in the air!
Milla Jovovich
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We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.
Ben Wikler
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Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
Thomas Carlyle
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
William Penn
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He does not seek power - yet people follow him.
Lao Tzu
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After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.
W. S. Gilbert
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African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
George Ayittey
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But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
Marianne Williamson
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The less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The fact is that middle managers have an effective veto power over whatever risk management system is created. If they don't buy it, it won't happen.
Adrian Slywotzky