- Emperor
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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
- Downplay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
- Arbitrary Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times.
- Hold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
OpenAI is doing important work by releasing tools which promote AI to be developed in the open. Compute power is largely produced by NVIDIA and Intel and still relatively expensive but openly purchasable. Blockchains may be the key final ingredient by providing massive pools of open training data.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020