- Politics
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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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- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.
- Nov 07, 2020
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ruskin's concern for art education applied to the development of the power of the hand and eye for everyone.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's amazing is how rock n' roll lasted. It started losing its commercial power in the late 1990s. But think of swing, which we think of as this big music before rock n' roll. It only lasted five years in total. So, rock going 50 years is amazing, because young people want new things.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
His belief in the power of music to convey ideas - not just entertain - has filtered down to musicians in every field, from alt-rock to hip-hop, from Bruce Springsteen and U2 to Arcade Fire and Kanye West. Popular music is different because of Johnny Cash.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I concluded that all religions had the same foundation - a belief in the supernatural - a power above nature that man could influence by worship - by sacrifice and prayer.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no understanding whatsoever of China. We'd like to create a young generation to tell their stories on a world stage. We can make history as well as make money.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020