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Power Quotes
"The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed."
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"The cool, lithe, cynical, and unconquered lord of the housetops."
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"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty."
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"There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence."
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"Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say."
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"That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living."
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"I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance."
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"With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information."
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"Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few."
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"Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown."
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"I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet."
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"The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists."
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"Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations."
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"Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here."
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"The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants."
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"The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations."
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"Nothing is sweeter and addictive than power, the unlucky soul this demon possesses, if he is not sacrificed on its altar will sacrifice others himself to get it."
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"I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time."
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"I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine."
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"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
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"When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!"
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"When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power."
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"Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize."
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"You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted."
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"We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat."
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"Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances."
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"I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power."
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"The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated."
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"Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer."
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"We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess."
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"There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral."
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"Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred."
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"Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement."
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"Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station."
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"With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power."
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"Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves."
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"From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it."
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"Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years."
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