Power Quotes
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For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
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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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I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.
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You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who owned CBS and the guy that owned Paramount, because I was dealing with the guy who would say yes or no.
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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
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Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
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In a democracy, you can be right and still lose 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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What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.
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Nike believes in a world where everyone celebrates the power of diversity.
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Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
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Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.
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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.
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Individual writers can certainly make a difference, but they are working within a system, an institution, that still holds tremendous power over whose voices are heard and whose voices are rewarded.
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Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.
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The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.
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One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.
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It's important to keep your power and not give it up.
