Power Quotes
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I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.
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Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
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The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
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The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. Educate and Empower & see the results.
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Anarchy is a free society where there is no concentrated or centralized power, no State, no king, no emperor, no ruler, no president, no magistrate, no potentate of any character whatever. Law is the enslaving power of man.
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We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.
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Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.
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Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
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From Kevyn Aucoin, I learned about the power of eyebrows. He was an eyebrow freak, and rightly so because there's nothing in your face that changes you more. You can quite visibly lift your eye with a higher-placed eyebrow, or if you thicken or thin it.
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Power changes its appearance but not its reality.
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The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.
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If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.
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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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A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.
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The Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid [or fearful]; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control (2 Timothy 1:7).
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It is the foremost responsibility of the United States, having been the predominant nuclear power, to take the lead in scaling this back and making good on its signed and sealed and ratified obligation in Article 6 of the non-proliferation treaty going back to '68 to eliminate this nuclear arsenal. That's a serious international obligation.
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Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.
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No matter where you are in life . . . you always have a choice and the choice can be power.
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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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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
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I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
