Power Quotes
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When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
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TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.
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When you discover your sexuality - like when you're little, you don't notice it. Then suddenly you're walking down the street and you're whistled at. And you're like, Oh, I have this power I didn't know about. And you also discover you're kind of prey. And you're like, Wait, that's confusing.
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'You could rule the nation-and yet you don’t seem to go after that power.'The mayor frowned. 'Power, Mrs. O’Hare? You mean the chance to make laws and compel others to do what you want them to? Why, good heavens, Mrs. O’Hare, who in his right mind would want that?'
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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
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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.
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You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
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In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
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Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
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Power is the recognition of necessity.
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Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.
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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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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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I want people to see their own power.
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We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
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Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the power which gave it birth-yourself.
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
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A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Power of responsibility was nil at these times. There was fear afterwards, with a massive and suppressed remorse.
