Power Quotes
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Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed – only when it is chosen.
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When you're a former president, you have much less power, but you have a lifetime of experience and contacts and if you've got the energy, you can bring influence to bear on a small but still fairly substantial number of things where you can concentrate on it because you don't have to change the subject when you wake up in the morning and there's something else in the newspaper.
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You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
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You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.
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Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers.
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Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
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Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.
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Order and system are nobler things than power.
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The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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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.
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Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order...perfection, prosperity and peace.
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I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
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We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.
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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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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
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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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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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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.
