- Balance
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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
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.
- Georgia
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.
- Nov 07, 2020
The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity.
- Conditioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
No event in strongman competitions lasts longer than 40 seconds, so by swimming in fast bursts, my body is conditioned for the level of speed and power it needs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
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- Nov 07, 2020