Power Quotes
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.
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I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.
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I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a vision. He translated the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God. That testimony has been confirmed to me over and over again.
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Money is power and power gives you choice.
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Fear is trusting in your own power.
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Partnerships like those remind us that the relationship between nations is not just defined by governments, but is defined by people - especially the young people who will determine the future long after those of us who are currently in positions of power leave the stage.
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I think that, like the show 'Game of Thrones,' our fascination with power struggles is pretty unanimous.
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Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?
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Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
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I'm not gonna give anybody the power to control my life.
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The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.
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The foremost, or indeed the sole condition which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love it. Thus the science of despotism, which was once so complex, is simplified, and reduced as it were to a single principle.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
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I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.
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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
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The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.
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No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
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We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
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The first time I heard the Mars Volta, I had a feeling I was experiencing something that people must have felt when they first heard Led Zeppelin. They have the same kind of power.
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We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
