- Look
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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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pictures have a lot more power than text. Text is just a bunch of little symbols. You have to actually read it and imagine it, and even that can be censored. With pictures, it's a lot more immediate.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.
- Economic Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a canonizing institution. Jann Wenner has worked to make Rolling Stone the keeper of the canon since 1970. I don't like that, because he uses institutional power and he uses economic power to enforce those standards.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
- Decide
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- Nov 07, 2020