Power Quotes
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We all have the power to be influencers.
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Islamic State is following a clear strategy. First, it wants to solidify its power in Iraq and Syria. Then, their fighters will try to advance to Syria's Mediterranean coast. If they are successful, that will be seen as their next great triumph. And then, their target will be Jordan, where things will be easy for them. Already, Islamic State has broad support in many cities there. And when they get there, it will once again come as a great surprise to everybody.
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Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
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Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Words have a lot of power.
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''Don't you see what my power does for me? I could sit in on the councils of kings and dictators. It makes me king. It makes me—Nemesis.''
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Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.
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In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.
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Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.
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Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
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I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.
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I think that fiction has a certain power.
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I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.
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Without a doubt, the next few minutes would be the most hellishly exciting in my life. Grinding pain and killer fatigue waited just beyond the word, "Partez." But I tried to ignore those prespects, and concentrate on the priceless feelings that also awaited. I thought about the perfect strokes we would take, and about the merciless surge of power we would unleash in the last 500 meters.
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The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
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Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
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We should never underestimate the power we have over one another, especially the power of our leadership decisions over those who look to us for direction or support.
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There's no such thing as too much power!
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
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Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.
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You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.
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I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. Ive seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.
