- Great
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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
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
- Nov 07, 2020
Attribution is power.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?
- Edgar
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- Nov 07, 2020
By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in power.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington greed - the greed for power and control over our lives and our economy.
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020