Power Quotes
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Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
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I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
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The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
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There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
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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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As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then 1958 Coup in Iraq, reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.”
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves.
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Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.
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It appears it would be quite un-American not to be suspicious of the government or to distrust it. History has taught them a little too much about the tragic frailties of human governments, but it has also driven home to them that they must control firmly political and economic power, which, handed over to any government in their land, could be easily used to oppress them.
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It was scary having that sort of power over a girl. You could hurt her in ways you might never understand.
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There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.
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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
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The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
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Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.
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When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.
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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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Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.
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'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
