Power Quotes
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
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People were often good, and did good things, such as the things that had been done to help after Vesuvius erupted, but as soon as those same people were given any authority or power, they abused it, or ignored the human consequences of their actions. And the people who ended up suffering most were always the women, because they had no authority or power.
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Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
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We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
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In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power.
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When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on public and private prisons alike.
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Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
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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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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
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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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God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.
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The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
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That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.
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Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.
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I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.
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To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.
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The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has started to pour into green energy, and I think that's wonderful. We're going to need that same kind of effort towards global gridlock if we're going to keep the individual mobility that we all take for granted today.
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Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
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Order and system are nobler things than power.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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I like dreams. I think there's a lot of information in them. I spent a lot of time on Jungian analysis and dreams are an elemental part of that process. Carl Jung believed very much in the power archetypes in dreams, what dream imagery means, and how you can tie it into deeper self examination. It's a big part of the therapeutic process.
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We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.
