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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are men - now in power in this country - who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit.
- Hitchcock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
My belief is that the U.S. is looking at the world through a short-term lens of tariffs and elections, while China is looking at a 25-year plan of becoming the dominant global power.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power does not change you, it unmasks you.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
- Discarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
- Power Corrupts
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.
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- Nov 07, 2020