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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
- Self-Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women play a finesse game: a real pattern game as opposed to flash and dash, power and strength.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is hardly neutral. Its connection to power makes it a highly charged social phenomenon and a mediator of relationships. Because it has historically been controlled by men, it has given men a tool for controlling women.
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- Nov 07, 2020