- Feel
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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
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a lot of stuff we can't control, but it is completely in our power to decide what the definition of what a good job is. That's up to us.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.
- Limit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's leverage the power of the Web - don't get rid of it, but make the Web beautiful again. We need to give the content room to breathe and give magazine-style advertisements the opportunity to flourish.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.
- Franklin
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even beyond policy considerations, Romneycare was a horrible model to suggest for the federal government because the Constitution does not give Congress the power to impose an individual insurance mandate.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
The frustration of Washington is you have to concentrate on just a few areas to really make a difference, and then so much of the power is at the top, at the committee chairman level.
- Guinea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to get drunk, I'm a power drinker.
- Endurance
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- Nov 07, 2020