- Government Power
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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
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
- Eloquence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
- Developments
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
- Street
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has started to pour into green energy, and I think that's wonderful. We're going to need that same kind of effort towards global gridlock if we're going to keep the individual mobility that we all take for granted today.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020