Power Quotes
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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.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.
Joe Kaeser
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Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power.
Eric Thomas
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Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have an influence even if they're not in power.
Branko Milanovic
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen
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God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.
Jerry Bridges
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I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
Tom Cruise
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
W. Somerset Maugham
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In the beginning no power differential existed between male and female. God empowered both with full rights and responsibility to rule outward over all creation, not over each other. As we know all too well, the fall changed everything, precipitating male rule over women and also the rule of some men over other men, a.k.a., patriarchy. Within patriarchy, women no longer derive their value from their Creator, but from men - father, husband, and sons. Within patriarchy, a woman's value is gauged by counting her sons.
Carolyn Custis James
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It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power that extend the paternalistic bias of their work in new ways.
Judith Butler
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Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
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To say that the cosmos was expanding is equally to say that its members were contracting. The ultimate centers of power, each at first coincident... themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.
Olaf Stapledon
