Power Quotes
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Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
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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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If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women.
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There is a great power in speaking your truth and standing for something important.
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When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.
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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.
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In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
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Everything is generated through your own will power.
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Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.
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... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them - not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
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Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you.
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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.
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
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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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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
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I think models have a lot less power than they did in the '80s, when there were, like, only 10 supermodels who could dictate the rules, whereas now there's so many, and that changes the power dynamic and makes it a more insecure business.
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We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.
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The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
