- Intelligence
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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
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot denude the presidency of the substance and power of its office. It can't be done.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people to change policy through democratic means.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020