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Power Quotes
"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
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"There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power."
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"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power."
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"He was always testing you. He was always testing his power."
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"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power."
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"There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America."
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"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing."
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"All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show."
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"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy."
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"Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power."
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"An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan."
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"To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence."
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"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
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"This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation."
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"But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way."
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"China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population."
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"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action."
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"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way."
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"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive."
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"By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't."
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"My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!"
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"The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it."
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"We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built."
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"The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice."
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"In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States."
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"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
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"I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power."
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"Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties."
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"The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system."
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"We as Americans assume that big companies are bad, and big power companies are even worse."
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"We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics."
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"The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists."
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"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
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"My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state."
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"We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people."
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