- First Thing
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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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make impossible the errors and lies which will merely be America being itself rather than its unconvincing promise.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
In India, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a cynical system where the powerful are able to exploit the demand of the aggressive few, from whichever religion or group, to bargain for more power or cynical advantage.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Praise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
- Attended
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think something that's really important to me is trying to do what I can from my position of power that comes with having a social media platform to dismantle certain systems that I think are really gross and harmful.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020