Power Quotes
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A government, a regime that is not willing to slaughter large numbers of its own citizens to stay in tyrannical power will lose power.
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Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.
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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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We all have the power to be influencers.
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The more nature and stuff, the better. The source of our power comes from nature, and the closer to nature you are, the more you can power up.
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There are three main controllers of power here in Britain: the political establishment in Westminster, the BBC (MSM), and the Bank Of England.
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Knowledge is Power, and it's very lightweight.
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We've got to remain energy-independent. It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the Middle East. We have enough worries over there without having to worry about that.
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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
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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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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
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One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
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Leaders of the various Iraqi elements will likely have their own militias, and there will be endless rounds of brinkmanship on the road to post-Islamic State boundaries, governing structures, and distribution of power and resources.
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By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving do not see the manifestation of his power, he brought the Puritans from the old world to New England, the Dutch to New York, the English Cavaliers to Virginia and the French to New Orleans, a combination of races which, paradoxical as it may appear, was just calculated to give us the composite America who made the United States of America what it is, the greatest nation of the world today.
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There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
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Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry for learning that we hope will illuminate the present.
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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.
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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and wishes. For they're the foundation from which great things begin.
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.
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If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.
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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.