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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
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore, those who have power and influence can also stop them... we should not accept any excuses from those in power.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agents have enormous power that studios relinquished to them. The studios, when I first came to Hollywood, that's where the power was.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a way of acknowledging this and framing its ambitions and interests accordingly. Instead of claiming the right to continuing primacy in east Asia, for example, it should seek to share that primacy with China.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and challenge.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020