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Power Quotes
"The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough."
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"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."
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"Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent."
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"Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think."
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"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."
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"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless."
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"We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained."
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"There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."
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"In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating."
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"Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans."
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"Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason."
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"There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power."
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"The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything."
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"I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world."
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"It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached."
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"There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it."
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"I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer."
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"I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level."
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"All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star."
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"Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold."
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"People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own."
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"I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them."
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"The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda."
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"She was smiling as she imagined herself as one more star in the sea of millions, and her body decided it had had enough, and she felt the exact moment when her power source gave up and the hum of electricity extinguished.But she was already vast and bright and endless."
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"In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north."
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"Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff... and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power."
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"The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped."
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"Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?"
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"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."
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"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands."
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"You've thrown down the gauntlet. You've brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist, then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master."
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"In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of."
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"Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegitimate, and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive."
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"My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut."
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"The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power."
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"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."
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