Power Quotes
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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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I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
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There were a lot of power plays tonight and we were finally able to get it done ? we'll take it.
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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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The power is from within, but we cannot receive it unless we give it.
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As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
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The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.
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Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.
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There is no power above people power.
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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.
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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
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I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
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To be alive──is Power.
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The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
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Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
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I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.
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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.
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Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.
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Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.
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Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.
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To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
