- Law
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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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- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, what I have is the power to give a louder voice to people who have issues, questions and problems.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And I believe - I have great faith in them. I think they will continue to serve up truth to power even if the power chooses not to listen to the truth.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high. Corporate leaders aren't given their power, prestige, responsibility, and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- Differential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020