Power Quotes
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I believe in the power of one.
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Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. In 'Anna Karenina,' nineteenth-century life itself is a relentless, relentlessly modern machine, flattening those who oppose it.
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If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.
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Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.
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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
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The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
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It is time to return power to the people by putting the electricity grid back in public hands.
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She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her. Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.
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Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.
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A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.
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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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I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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There is a great power in speaking your truth and standing for something important.
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Secession withdraws the State out of the reach of the usurped powers.
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Let us turn our backs on power and treachery.
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Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.
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No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.
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Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
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“When we consider the works of creation, and think of the power manifested in them, we are contemplating the power of redemption.”
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No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'
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The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.
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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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Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.
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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.
