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Power Quotes
"The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious."
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"None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not."
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"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is."
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"Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung."
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"Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many."
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"It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else."
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"If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts."
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"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."
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"In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will."
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"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy."
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"They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it."
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"The power to do good is also the power to do harm."
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"You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power."
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"But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it."
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"I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded."
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"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."
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"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have."
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"I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it."
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"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."
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"I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest."
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"When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant."
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"It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you."
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"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
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"The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values."
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"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
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"In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts."
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"If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be."
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"The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress."
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"Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can."
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"Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission."
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"Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them."
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"The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts."
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"Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix."
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