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Power Quotes
"When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form."
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"Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes."
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"Power is the by-product of understanding."
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"Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration."
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"For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington."
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"My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive."
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"To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them."
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"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."
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"A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster."
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"We have an active program. We have nuclear weapons, we are a nuclear power. We have an advanced missiles program."
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"There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station."
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"And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also."
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"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."
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"The greatest power is often simple patience."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
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"When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play."
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"This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous."
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"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
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"But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper."
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"All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power."
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"I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race."
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"I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns."
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"Your actions create an 'energy vortex' that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture."
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"The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here."
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"Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power."
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"In any society, concentrations of power should be avoided at all cost."
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"I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials."
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"Okay, ' I said. 'I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house.' Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly.'Eric, ' I said, and his smile faded. 'I rescind your invitation into my house.' And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them."
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