Power Quotes
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To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Writing must always have intention because words have power.
Suheir Hammad
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Until the colonial period Korea had one of the world’s longest histories of centralized rule; that the ROK is about a quarter of Germany's size; and that the likelihood of Kim Jong Un devolving any of his power to mayors and governors is zero.
Brian Reynolds Myers
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There are billions of barrels of oil in the Outer Continental Shelf. There is even more in Alaska. There is enough oil shale in the Rocky Mountain West alone to power America for the next hundred years. The Democrats say all this American energy is off limits.
John Barrasso
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Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.
Abigail Padgett
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You can't out-wrestle me. You can't out-strike me. You don't have more power than me.
Kamaru Usman
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Being a woman is power. Just because we live in a male-dominated world doesn't mean that you're incapable or less than a man.
Mya
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Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.
John Tiffany
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Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.
George Packer
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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
George W. Bush
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When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.
John Scalzi
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Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.
Nancy MacLean
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Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
Homer
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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.
William Wordsworth
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Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
John Sununu
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Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.
Arthur Wallis
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I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.
Norman Grubb
