Power Quotes
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While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.
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From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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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.
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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We are captive to systems of power until we can name the dominant myths and the intricate systems of coercion and control that extinguish our freedom.
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If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?
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Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
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We've got the power of the purse in the Congress.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.
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But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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As more wealth and political power is amassed - as bitcoins rise in value - Congress and various lobbying groups will be influenced to an ever greater extent by the interests of Bitcoin owners who - in turn - will lobby to keep the Internet and Bitcoin alive and growing.
