Power Quotes
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Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).
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Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
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If we had made it clear from the very beginning that we were not going to tolerate another nuclear power on the face of the earth, and had done it in Korea, where we could have accomplished it militarily, if necessary, I would put a stop to it and would have put a stop to it there.
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African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
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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.
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Written pages are something that can be returned to, reclaimed, and when they are marvelous, never lose their power.
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Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both of these are suspected by the one who has been raised to power.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.
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I think that fiction has a certain power.
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I just want to believe in a higher power. That's a good way to live.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.
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Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.
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Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.
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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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We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.
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We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.
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The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.
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It is one broken person talking to another broken person. And there is power in that.
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
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The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
