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"Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I."
Alan Ladd
"Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I."
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"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
Plutarch
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
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"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
Rebecca West
"The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived."
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"The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble."
Lajos Kossuth
"The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble."
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"I don't seek power and do not run around."
Benoit Mandelbrot
"I don't seek power and do not run around."
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"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
Bruce Lee
"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
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"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."
Rene Descartes
"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
Clarence Darrow
"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
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"Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power."
Mary Douglas
"Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power."
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"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."
George MacDonald
"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."
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"So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things."
Thom Yorke
"So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things."
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"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
Mark Zuckerberg
"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
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"A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man."
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
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"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."
Anita Hill
"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."
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"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future."
Madeleine Albright
"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future."
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"To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door."
Melissa Etheridge
"To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door."
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"He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity."
Nick Faldo
"He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity."
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"When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed."
Margaret J. Wheatley
"When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed."
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"The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out."
Alfred Jodl
"The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out."
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"We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people."
Daniel Webster
"We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people."
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"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
Jeremy Bentham
"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."
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"Power is dangerous unless you have humility."
Richard J. Daley
"Power is dangerous unless you have humility."
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"Words are only as powerful as the meaning they carry within them."
Idries Shah
"Words are only as powerful as the meaning they carry within them."
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"When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over."
John Perkins
"When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over."
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"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."
James Boswell
"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."
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"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."
Henry B. Adams
"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."
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"Power is paradoxical."
Friedrich Durrenmatt
"Power is paradoxical."
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"The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true."
George W. Bush
"The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true."
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"Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table."
George Schultz
"Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table."
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"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
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"If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming."
Phillip E. Johnson
"If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming."
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"The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power."
Isaac Mayer Wise
"The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power."
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"The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears."
Wilson Mizner
"The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears."
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"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."
Plutarch
"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."
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"The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become."
May Sarton
"The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become."
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"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."
Thomas Carlyle
"The eye sees what it brings the power to see."
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"Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea."
Rick Riordan
"Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea."
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"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."
Milton Friedman
"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."
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"Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it."
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
"Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it."
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"One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures."
Larry Wall
"One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures."
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"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
William Proxmire
"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
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"Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record."
Michael W. Smith
"Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record."
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"Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic."
Alexis Carrel
"Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic."
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"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"
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"The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question."
John Bates Clark
"The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question."
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"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Mary Pickford
"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
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"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
Stewart Udall
"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
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"The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence."
Henry Cabot Lodge
"The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence."
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"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
John Adams
"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
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