Power Quotes
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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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Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
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If we're going to be serious about decarbonizing the bulk-power system, nuclear has to be part of the conversation.
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For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.
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With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
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Thank God for the white male power structure.
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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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Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no more room left for fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith and you will automatically master fear.
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No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.
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I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
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By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.
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God does not give beforehand the grace with which to bear His blows; He does not heal before he smites. In your terror at the thought of parting with Horace, you left entirely out of account the sustaining power that would hold you up and bear you through those awful moments; you suffered in advance, and wholly in your own strength. But how many, how many persons I have heard say, ‘I am a marvel to myself! This blow, so long dreaded, has not slain me, as I ever believed it would; I stagger under it, but I live to wonder at the strength God gives me, and in which I bear it.
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Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power.
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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.
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Power flows to those who serve.
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Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.
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Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.
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Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.
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The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
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I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this U.S country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.
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As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.
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So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
