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Power Quotes
"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."
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"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power."
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"As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers."
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"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
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"To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in."
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"We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first."
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"The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that."
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"Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."
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"The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour."
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"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."
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"The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it."
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"Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.”
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"I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve."
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"Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning."
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"I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again."
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"We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably."
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"The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet."
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"There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear."
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"Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent."
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"The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power."
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"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
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"And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it."
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"Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: The realm. Do you know what the realm is? It's the thousand blades of Aegon's enemies, a story we agree to tell each other over and over, until we forget that it's a lie.Lord Varys: But what do we have left, once we abandon the lie? Chaos? A gaping pit waiting to swallow us all.Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish: Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, are given a chance to climb. They refuse, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is."
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"Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual."
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"Here is a universal law: that when it comes to negative and positive, you will always thrive more powerfully in the positive if you have first been immersed in, and have heroically overcome, the polar opposite negative of that thing. To abide in the positive existence of something, without having known and overcome it's polar opposite- that is to be only a frame of the real structure. Easily toppled down and taken apart. True power is in the hands of the one who thrives in the positive, after having known and conquered the negative. Because when the demons come along, she will say to those demons: "I know you, I have owned you, but now you bow down to me."
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"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good."
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"If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power's the only important thing then Gandalf loses against Sauron. If magic is the deciding factor of a fight, then four plucky kids from England get their asses turned to stone by the White Which."
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"They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart."
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"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
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"We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once."
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"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."
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"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
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"Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment."
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"When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us."
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"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."
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"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock."
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"The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China."
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"We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment."
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"This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills."
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"Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look."
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