- Government
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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
- Difficult Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all have cultural bias, racial bias. One of the difficult things around this subject matter is to deny that we have places we go to subconsciously, and unless you consciously decide that that's wrong and you've got to do something about it, especially if you're in a position of power, it won't change.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and interactions that occur within the network. The Facebook social graph fuels our mantra 'Try it for free', 'Share it if you like it', 'Buy it if you love it.'
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
- Nov 07, 2020
People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.
- Dissecting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.
- Nov 07, 2020
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The law always limits every power it gives.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020