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Power Quotes
"The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things."
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"I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done."
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"In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention."
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"The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process."
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"Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates."
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"A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals."
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
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"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority."
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"What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists."
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"Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power."
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"The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our economy, and protect our Nation for at least another 150 years if we continue to use it."
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"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."
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"The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act."
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"Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."
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"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."
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"Choice is the greatest power in the universe, and it is all yours."
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"He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies."
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"The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim."
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"India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship."
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"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."
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"Now, in the space of a year, we've spent 450 percent more for power than we did the year before, and bought essentially the same amount of power. This year, that number's likely to go up. That can't go on forever and have us continue to be the economic engine for America."
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"This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces."
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"Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength."
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"I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun."
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"The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine."
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"As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations."
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"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have."
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"You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing."
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"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."
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"Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength."
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"To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them."
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"It was an argument of rare power and eloquence."
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