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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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.
- Flowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Free' is the museum show of our times, presaging the whole Wikileaks dustup, and it shows shifting power dynamics and a glimpse of the human in a world of flowing data.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
- Corporate World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be that 1 percent or 2 percent better physically so you have more power and energy left than your opponent when you go to a third set.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect, clarify, and explain what previously was unexplainable, and thus to improve the human condition.
- Incredible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of storytelling - of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd - remains absolute.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
- Beneficent
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- Nov 07, 2020