Power Quotes
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Radio comes to us ostensibly with person to person directness that is private and intimate, while in more urgent fact, it is really a subliminal echo chamber of magic power to touch remote and forgotten chords. (p. 302).
Marshall McLuhan
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If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles George Gordon
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What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.
Nina Totenberg
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I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing.
Brigid Schulte
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By the nourishing spirit of the temple we can learn the reality, the power and the hope of the Savior's Atonement in our personal life.
Neill F. Marriott
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Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.
Anthony Robbins
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Power is neither male nor female.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael Jackson
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The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same in subjection to Jesus Christ; this is the greatest mystery we have to learn while in these tabernacles of clay.
Brigham Young
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If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
Susan Powter
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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.
Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
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The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.
John Ruskin
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It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.
Elena Ferrante
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One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
Vladimir Putin
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Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
Bill Clinton
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I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
Heather Watts
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The Obama administration has already imposed burdensome regulations - for instance, the sprawling Clean Power Plan aimed at wiping out the coal industry - that will raise the cost of energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.
John Barrasso
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
Seneca the Younger
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I don’t know if I can explain why I find this car so frightening. It’s powerful. It’s fast. I could go sixty and not even notice, and that’s the problem. I feel like I should notice having power like this. Like if I ever stop noticing, I’ll lose something important.
Courtney Milan
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The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
Tom Hanks
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A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
Eleanor Dark
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The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.
Noah Feldman
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The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell but where the will of the creature is turned from God, nor any heaven but where the will of the creature worketh with God.
William Law