Power Quotes
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The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.
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But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.
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We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.
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Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.
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Power is power. Those who hold it seldom remember where they came from.
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We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.
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Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
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Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."
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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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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
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A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power.
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Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power of money. Huge industries would no longer make billions of dollars on activities that diminish the well-being and safety of our children, our health, and our environment, on the pretext that it's "just business." To put money before goodness is idolatry, and the laws of the universe ensure that in the end all idols will fall.
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
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It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.
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Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.
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“But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”
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Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.
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It is a war of religion as much as a war for power.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
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It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
