Power Quotes
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I wanted to show the world, to show United that I was ready to play and I was motivated to play. This comeback just showed that I left United, but the power of my heart was still here, to be honest.
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
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...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.
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To be alive──is Power.
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The production of heat alone is not sufficient to give birth to the impelling power: it is necessary that there should also be cold; without it, the heat would be useless.
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Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.
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All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.
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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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I like working with women who own their own power.
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There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it.
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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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Oppression is the essence of power.
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The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.
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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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Power plays cost us the game. If you don't score it's one thing. But if you give up the winning goal on your power play, that's where it hurts the most.
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I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.
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Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power.
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Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...
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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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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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The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
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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.
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I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.
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More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.
