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Power Quotes
"I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest."
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"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
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"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view."
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"Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients."
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"Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it."
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"Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people."
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"The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power."
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"Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances."
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"And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech."
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"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."
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"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."
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"No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself."
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"In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party."
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"There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing."
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"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
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"At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned."
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"The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us."
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"A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York."
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"Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God."
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"I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is."
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"We hate those in power in Washington D.C. and anything bad that happens to them is good for us."
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"Because it was the original 4 guys, and the dynamic of those 4 guys interacting together that had the power."
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"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language."
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"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
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"When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable."
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"Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness."
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"They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed."
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"I don't know how you can do it, if you don't recognition the media as a power center in America."
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"Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions."
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