- Nov 07, 2020
Power Quotes
Lines on power, wherever it shows up.
Rather than sticking to one definition, this set moves between the power of computing infrastructure, a hitter's power at the plate, and the power a film has to hold a room the way old storytelling once did. Compare notes on strength and character in our Great page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidential powers are not exercised by a body or group. The Constitution vests 'all executive power' in one and only one person - the president.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cases like Power Traders Press are just as important as cases like Mobile TeleSystems. In my view, our best cases are those that yield tangible results for everyday people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nationwide injunctions not only allow district courts to wield unprecedented power, they also allow district courts to wield it asymmetrically.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.
- Comeback
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, 'I'm New Here,' doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
- Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since losing his reelection in 2002, Barr has lost not only his power but also many of his friends. It doesn't help that after alienating nearly every Democrat with impeachment, he spent the next five years alienating his fellow Republicans - railing against the invasion of Iraq, the PATRIOT Act, and the Bush administration in general.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a little, I firmly believe cloud - previously called grid computing - will become very widespread. It's much cheaper than buying your own computing infrastructure, or maybe you don't have the power to do what you want on your own computer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people.
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- Nov 07, 2020