- Man
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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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
- Corresponding
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- Nov 07, 2020
To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
- Absolute Power Corrupts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of fear of failure, with will to win, is an incredible force. I don't think we should be worried about having a fear of failure; I think it's quite natural. If you surveyed any top businessman or any top athlete, I bet if they were truthful, they would all say they've got a fear of losing and a fear of failure.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
- Consisting
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- Nov 07, 2020
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the States, constituting this great and glorious Union. To the rest of the world, we are one. Neither State nor State government is known beyond our borders. Within, it is different.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of each to judge for itself of the extent of the power allotted to its share, and to protect itself in its exercise, is what, in reality, is meant by a division of power.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020