- Freedom
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- 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
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the week following Sandy, we weren't flooded, but we were without everything else - I ended up living by candlelight - no phones, no computers, no light, no power. If we took a walk at night to go and find something to eat, it was completely black, with no lights coming out of the windows, no street lights: a very apocalyptic feeling.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
China is a vast, disparate country; there is no alternative to strong central power.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can have reunification if another power replaces Kim Jong Un. I don't know who it could be, but I hope and I believe another power, another person will be better.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.
- Demolished
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- Nov 07, 2020
Palestinians also have a right not to have their homes demolished because an occupying power refuses to grant them a permit. Palestinian children should not be shot at or arrested in the middle of the night and interrogated by the Israeli military while terrified and isolated.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.
- Discovers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.
- Fascists
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020