Power Quotes
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An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation.
Steven Levitt
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The biggest single thing China needs to do is build an emergent middle class and domestic consumption, and the best way to do that is through pension and health-care reform, and currency reform to establish purchasing power among its citizens.
Peter Navarro
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He stayed up the middle with a couple, which is good to see, ... Sometimes he gets a little too pull happy, with the added power he has.
Bob Melvin
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It is one broken person talking to another broken person. And there is power in that.
Ed Dobson
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If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.
Satish Kumar
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My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.
Rene Descartes
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It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.
John Ruskin
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If we're going to be serious about decarbonizing the bulk-power system, nuclear has to be part of the conversation.
Lynn Good
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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A question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.
Jacqueline Winspear
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If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women.
Nina Shaw
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I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.
Natalie Portman