Famous Quotes: Power

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
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I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
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I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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The way to have power is to take it.
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When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
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I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
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