Power Quotes
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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 only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
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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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This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.
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Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power.
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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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There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
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Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."
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There is a tendency to feature more actresses on covers, but I'm a big model lover. I grew up watching these models, and they gave me the wish, the need, to work in the fashion industry. I loved watching them - their beauty, the way they worked in front of the camera and that power of transformation, especially in the Seventies.
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Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.
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In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.
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No matter where you are in life . . . you always have a choice and the choice can be power.
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Power moves with you when you have an intent to serve more than yourself.
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And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
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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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A power that can't be used for good? Like a bad girl power? I wouldn't mind being clairvoyant, but I wouldn't want it if I couldn't use it for good. Peace and love, man. Peace and love.
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We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
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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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When I'm in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it - it kind of quells my narcissism.
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The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians
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A peaceful mind generates power.
