- 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
- Good People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.
- Nov 07, 2020
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020