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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the power of going to Mount St. Helens, and to see that level of devastation is quite something - the power of tsunamis, etc. But it's human cruelty, the base level of humanity, that scares me most.
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- Nov 07, 2020
An object imbued with intent - it has power, it's treasure, we're drawn to it. An object devoid of intent - it's random, it's imitative, it repels us. It's like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
- Corrupts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.
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- Nov 07, 2020