Power Quotes
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If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
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The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.
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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
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The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.
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Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
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I will fight with all my power against the divisions that undermine us and which are tearing us apart.
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Complete weakness and dependence will always be the occasion for the Spirit of God to manifest His power.
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What grace could all your worldly power bringTo One whose crown of thorns has made him King,The Christ who gave His body to the flails,Who humbly bore the lance and piercing nails?Or do you fear the rabble might disgrace The One.
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Faith is not in power but in truth.
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I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
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I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.
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Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.
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The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.
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The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge challenges. Climate change cannot be solved by governments alone. Xenophobia, hatred, and intolerance - more business leaders have to play a role in trying to be positive leaders, civic leaders.
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There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
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The worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way in which we come to think of it as inevitable. ... It is not true. ... Social life is lighted up with the lustre of the white, unstained robes of many a pure man or woman who walks through its very midst.
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For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women’s cosmic power.
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All our wealth and all our export power has also come by the fact that other nations were willing to see us. This is very important.
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I believe in God and the power of prayer.
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I want to lead people toward finding hope through the purity and healing power of metal.
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Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
