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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great broadcasting requires all of us, those who are in positions of power and especially those who are in positions to employ people, to remember you need to look towards the greatest conceivable palate to create greatness.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start every book with something that outrages me. I'm outraged by the FBI, the CIA, and computers that seem to have catalogued our lives. Power too often is accompanied by irresponsibility.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.
- Economic Power
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- Nov 07, 2020