Power Quotes
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I don't seek power and do not run around
Benoit Mandelbrot
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There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
Steve Forbes
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
O. Henry
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We have more than two options... a critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power.... Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.
John Ralston Saul
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Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite your passion.
Anthony Robbins
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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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Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed – only when it is chosen.
Dinesh D'Souza
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The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.
George Lucas
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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
George Bernard Shaw
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
Henrik Ibsen
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth
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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.
Alicia Sixtos
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In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers, is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.
Peter Drucker
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To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
John Calvin
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The property of power is to protect.
Blaise Pascal
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Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.
Mac Anderson
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In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power.
Stéphane Charbonnier
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I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.
Erin Cahill
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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.
Thomas Aquinas
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You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.
Napoleon Hill
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It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
George Lois
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There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end.
James Hutton