Power Quotes
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Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
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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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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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Prisoners, slaves, women and children, the sick, weak, disabled, animals, the earth itself – all were fair game for the cruel sport of those who had power. It was wrong, it was evil, but it was a fact of life.
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Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.
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Power changes its appearance but not its reality.
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Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below.
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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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Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
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No matter what you're facing in your life, what obstacles you might have, and what you feel your limitations might be, there's something inside you that's eternal, that is filled with wisdom and potential and possibility. There's an inner power inside you to affect an amazing level of healing, to help you find who you really are, to help you walk your unique path up the mountain, to help you move towards manifesting your fullest potential.
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I have always been of the opinion that when those in power are promoting actions and ideals that risk harming or impeding us, people should stand up to this.
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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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The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere. Artists are in awe of it.
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I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
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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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The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite your passion.
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Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.
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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.
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In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower. It wanted units to be equal and divisable, and for that purpose man had to be destroyed as the horse had already been destroyed.
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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.
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You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.
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As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then 1958 Coup in Iraq, reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.”
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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.
