Power Quotes
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I do think the biggest problem newspapers have is loss of trust, and I feel that's a result of failure to speak truth to power.
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Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?
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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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Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
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By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.
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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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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
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Do not doubt a woman's power to aid; no toil Can daunt a pure affection.
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If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.
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Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
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The most important responsibility we have as journalists is to question those who are in power. I honestly believe that.
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
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I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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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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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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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
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Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.
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I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
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What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?
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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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Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.
