Power Quotes
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Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
Larry Wall
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There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it's the whole picture that counts.
Jeremy Stoppelman
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In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Orville Wright
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
Olive Schreiner
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
Carl Sagan
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“Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds”
Charles I of England
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We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.
Martin Luther
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Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.
Barack Obama
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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
Rita Mae Brown
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We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.
Ferdinand Marcos
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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
David Bailey
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The London I entered was a great bustling metropolitan city at war, an imperial power fighting to hold on to that empire. And the teeming colonial subjects of that empire did not, on the whole, want England to lose that war, but they also did not want the empire to emerge unchanged from it. This, for very many of us, was the hard dilemma.
Peter Abrahams
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It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.
H. G. Wells
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One of Museveni's defining early pronouncements was his diagnosis of Africa's problem. Africa's problem, he would say, was leaders who did not want to leave power.
Yoweri Museveni
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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.
John Travolta
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The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
