Power Quotes
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You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.
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The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.
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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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France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
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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 think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.
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The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.
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I am of the opinion that the main and final cause why the prince pretends to the power of altering the coinage is the profit or gain which he can get from it.
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A power struggle is always better than absolute power.
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When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.
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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
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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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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming 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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Most progressive critics don't want to destroy the power of the Fed to regulate the macroeconomy and finance. They want to regain control over it so that it better serves the interests of the whole population.
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We should never underestimate the power we have over one another, especially the power of our leadership decisions over those who look to us for direction or support.
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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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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.
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Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.
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We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.
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The power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it.
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In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.
