Power Quotes
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Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
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Every technology contrived and 'outered' by man has the power to numb human awareness during the period of its first interiorization. (p. 174)
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If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
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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.
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.
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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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Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
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No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
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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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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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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.
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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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A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.
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Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.
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A peaceful mind generates power.
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In times of happiness we do not begin to perceive the strength of the mighty tenderness which the deep recesses of the heart hold for those we love. We need misfortune and the sense of suffering endured by those for whom we would give our last drop of blood, to learn the power of it.
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To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.
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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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Never underestimate the power of dreams and wishes. For they're the foundation from which great things begin.
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Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.
