Power Quotes
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig
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My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.
Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
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By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
Friedrich Engels
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The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?
John Muir
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God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, incorporeal, unborn, immense, omniscient, omnipotent, merciful and just. He is the maker, protector, and destroyer of worlds.
Dayananda Saraswati
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.
John Boehner
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There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.
Amandla Stenberg
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
Brown Campbell
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Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Wendell Phillips
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While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
Bill Hybels
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For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
Aristotle
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
Lady Gaga
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You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.
Nalini Singh
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
Naveen Jain
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
Warren Farrell
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
Tarja Halonen
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
Omar Bongo
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It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.
Ted Cruz
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I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.
Ira Glass
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I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.
Yair Lapid
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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
Rachel Cusk