Power Quotes
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When you're a former president, you have much less power, but you have a lifetime of experience and contacts and if you've got the energy, you can bring influence to bear on a small but still fairly substantial number of things where you can concentrate on it because you don't have to change the subject when you wake up in the morning and there's something else in the newspaper.
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Since 1990, we have been building up the idea that democracy is the best way for sectors that feel socially excluded from politics to win power.
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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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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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Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
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I'm appalled that the word 'feminism' has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. It isn't about us and them.
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
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The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art
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I love long power walks in the countryside.
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You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.
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It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll never go back as long as anyone in the Castro family is in power.' Well, what happens if you can go back? Would you want to see things?
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Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.
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It seemed so obvious that abusing the power of the page, and that was a phrase that was bandied about, 'the power of the page', that any abuse would be career suicide.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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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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To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
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There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
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I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
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I think that fiction has a certain power.
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In the beginning no power differential existed between male and female. God empowered both with full rights and responsibility to rule outward over all creation, not over each other. As we know all too well, the fall changed everything, precipitating male rule over women and also the rule of some men over other men, a.k.a., patriarchy. Within patriarchy, women no longer derive their value from their Creator, but from men - father, husband, and sons. Within patriarchy, a woman's value is gauged by counting her sons.
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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.
