Power Quotes
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It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.
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We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.
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I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.
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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
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Money holds terrible power when it is loved.
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We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
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There's no such thing as too much power!
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Thank God for the white male power structure.
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Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power.
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The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
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Words have the power to release pent-up emotions as well as to define them in rational and meaningful terms.
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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
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The Obama administration has already imposed burdensome regulations - for instance, the sprawling Clean Power Plan aimed at wiping out the coal industry - that will raise the cost of energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.
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Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal troubles such as we never have seen before, and only a strong Governmental power able to rely on the confidence of the nation can save it.
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Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.
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This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
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The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
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I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.
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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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When I'm fully fit, I have power and pace; then I feel good on the pitch.
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Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
