Power Quotes
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.
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People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.
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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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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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We wanted black power to be all things to all people.
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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
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Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.
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Fear unchecked grows exponentially. Love poured forth has the power to remove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives.
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I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.
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You have to be that 1 percent or 2 percent better physically so you have more power and energy left than your opponent when you go to a third set.
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Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.
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Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
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Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
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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.
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Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.
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There exists only one person who has the power to cast the deciding vote that will kill your dream you!
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It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
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The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.
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Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
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In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power.
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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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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
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I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
