Power Quotes
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Oh, I have very limited will power. I wish I could change that. I am working on it, though. I am too easygoing.
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die.
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There is a still small voice telling us what is right, and if we listen to that still small voice we shall grow and increase in strength and power, in testimony and in ability not only to live the gospel but to inspire others to do so.
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I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.
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Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.
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Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
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For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
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There's a lot more to being a singer than singing. I don't come off stage thinking that I have a power over people 'cause I don't - it's not a power, it's an ability to be able to communicate with a vast amount of people, something I'm very lucky to be able to do.
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Power only does all its business of empowering when it's perceived as a difference between the power of those nearby and, even more important, the power one previously had.
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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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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
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When you name something, you take away some of it's power. It becomes known.
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More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.
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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 think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.
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In some ways, privileged women who are closer to power wind up being able to exert their influence in ways that change public policy in ways that women with less power don't have access to.
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In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.
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There are two ways in which we may attain control over our activity. The first is confidence in the power of our own will; to know that if we have failed today, tomorrow we will not do so. The second is to have our eyes wide open, and to watch keenly our activity in all aspects of life. It is in the dark that we fall, but in the light we can see where we are going.
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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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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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Nonviolence is something very powerful, and the power behind it is not weapons, but the support of the people.
