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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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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama must scrutinize and disassemble the post-Sept. 11 imperial presidency, even if he reduces his own power in the process.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a government forcibly holds enough people indefinitely without trial, it evokes the kinds of raids, detention, and abuses of power associated with authoritarian states - or darker periods in American history.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even George W. Bush, who as president pushed the boundaries of executive power, never proposed a statutory scheme to hold people indefinitely.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of hip-hop that's oriented toward a progressive view of America because it's oriented toward a civil rights progress and a critique of the power structure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020