Power Quotes
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It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
Abraham Lincoln
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When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.
John Scalzi
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The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.
Hillary Clinton
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Let us turn our backs on power and treachery.
Pope Francis
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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.
Ahmed Chalabi
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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Brad Alan Lewis
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Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.
Newt Gingrich
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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The property of power is to protect.
Blaise Pascal
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“The Gospel, then, is simply the creative power of God applied to men. Any gospel that leaves creation out, or which does not preach the creative power of God, as seen in the things that He has made, and which does not comfort men by that power, calling upon them ever to keep it in mind as their only source of strength, is “another gospel,” which is simply no gospel at all, since there can be no other.”
Ellet J. Waggoner
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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.
Steve Forbes
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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere. Artists are in awe of it.
Mickey Hart
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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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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.
George W. Bush
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It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
Cate Blanchett
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I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
Ned Vizzini
