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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, coming from the women's movement, politics is not just about parties and parliament. There is politics in our private space and in gender relations as well. Wherever there's power, there's politics.
- Perfection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Williams sisters, they have this power. They have this ability to come back from nowhere.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even before September 11, there was a debate in the administration about whether or not military force should be used to oust Saddam Hussein. You're not going to find one person in the top echelons of the foreign policy and national security establishment in the U.S. government who's going to say that Saddam Hussein should not be out of power.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this moment happening in our culture where the power of the audience and the influence that people of color have is undeniable at this point.
- Economic Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.
- Nov 07, 2020