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Power Quotes
"If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix."
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"I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly."
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"It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen."
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"Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power."
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"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."
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"America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor."
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"One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know."
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"Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase."
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"The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone."
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"The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with."
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"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."
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"Nikolas. The man's voice was deep, rough, and familiar. Nikolas's flare of aggression subsided as he realized the approaching figure was Rhys. 'When you weren't here to greet us, we got worried. 'I ran into a pack of Hounds, Nikolas replied tersely. Rhys hesitated. 'Is everything ok? 'They're dead. I'm not. Situation handled."
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"Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation."
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"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it."
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"That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself."
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"Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up."
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"The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty."
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"The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives."
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"Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it."
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"Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence."
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"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes."
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"Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop."
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"The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other."
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"The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends."
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