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Power Quotes
"When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."
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"The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests."
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"We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge."
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"I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody."
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"On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy."
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"Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me."
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"The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?"
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"I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything."
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"No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'."
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"The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them."
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"With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds."
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"As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power."
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"The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude."
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"With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers."
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"Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me."
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"I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States."
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"I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991."
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"I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news."
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"The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them."
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"I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities."
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"The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power."
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"Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are."
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"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon."
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"The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does."
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"Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs."
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"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."
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"What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power."
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"Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound."
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"To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience."
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"There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves."
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