- 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
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organizing gives workers the power to lift themselves out of poverty and build a better future.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove critical environmental regulations that protect New York communities from toxic pollution.
- Dangerous Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
- Grasped
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
- Connotations
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven't met, I suppose I'd most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020