Famous Quotes: Power

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
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We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Excessive fear is always powerless.
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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
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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.
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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
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I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
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To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
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Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
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I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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