- People
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
- Destitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
- Defective
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- Nov 07, 2020
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
The NRA is a true grass-roots organization, and the collective power of its membership is simply unparalleled.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.
- Blossom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020