Power Quotes
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The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
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I say then to you: come and let us do them and achieve them, for it is in our power to make or mar our destiny. Above all, have no doubt about your creative power which can move mountains and even Heaven. And what Heaven on this earth can stand before the united will and wisdom of our people conscious of their strength and power and harnessing it firmly to the chariot wheels of history?
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Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.
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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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There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.
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The limits of our military power must be obvious to all, and domestically we are divided as we have not been since Vietnam. So what should we do now? Can we think honestly about those with grievances against the U.S.? Can we think how to conclude the war in Iraq, how to offset the forces of extremism?
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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
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Donald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's.
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Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
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If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
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Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.
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I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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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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We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.
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The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
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Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break.
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I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
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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.
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Brutish strength combined with the elegance of the gambit—it was the mark of a true genius. Anyone could achieve power with a gun or a knife. The perfect riddle commanded its recipient to act in one way, and one way only. There was no greater mastery—and that was what the Riddler sought to achieve over Batman—absolute mastery.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
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Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.
