- Age
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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.
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- Doubtless
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- Nov 07, 2020
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel will do all in its power to ensure that from Paris to Jacksonville, from Berlin to Manchester, Jews can walk on the streets without hiding their identity.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my watch, Iran will not become a regional power. And I will not hesitate to use force when needed.
- Gaining
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- Nov 07, 2020
2012 will be a critical year in the connection between Iran gaining nuclear power, changes in leadership, continuing pressure from the international community and events that happen unnaturally.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't doubt that there are many presidential acts that would constitute obstructions of justice if anyone but the president engaged in them but which constitute legitimate exercises of presidential power when the president engages in them.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.
- Executive Power
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- Nov 07, 2020