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We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
– George A. Sheehan
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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
– William E. Gladstone
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We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
– Joe Baca
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We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
– Christiane Amanpour
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
– Stewart Udall
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We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.
– Jerry Brown
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We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
– Mary McLeod Bethune
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
– Tavis Smiley
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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
– Maria Montessori
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We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
– Charles Stanley
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We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
– Barbara Deming
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We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.
– Billy Burke
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We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
– William Glasser
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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
– Li Ka Shing
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Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.
– Jerry Saltz
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Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
– Henry A. Wallace
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Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
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To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
– Frederick Soddy
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To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
– Norman Thomas
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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
– Adam Clarke
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To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
– Herbert Read
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To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.
– Vladimir Nabokov
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
– Plutarch
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To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
– Tony Snow
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To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
– John Dickey
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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
– Friedrich August von Hayek
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Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
– Allen Klein
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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
– Carroll Quigley
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This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that, in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation, scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.
– Elliot Richardson
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This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.
– Rick Perry
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They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
– Henry A. Wallace
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
– Abraham Lincoln
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
– Queen Elizabeth II
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There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.
– Theresa May
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There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.
– Jenna Elfman
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There is this power that comes with being famous.
– Rod Stewart
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There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health.
– Patty Murray
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There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
– William Henry Harrison
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
– Jack Kevorkian
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
– Honore de Balzac
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There is no limit to the power of loving.
– John Morton
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There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.
– Hillary Clinton
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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
– Eugenio Montale
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There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
– Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
– Martin Scorsese
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There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
– Henry A. Wallace
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There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
– John Mayer
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There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
– Henry David Thoreau
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
– Samuel Johnson
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The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.
– Sloane Crosley
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The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
– Chanakya
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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
– Maria Mitchell
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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
– James Hillman
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The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.
– Joe Biden
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The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
– Richard Armitage
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The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
– Shimon Peres
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The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
– Condoleezza Rice
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
– Oprah Winfrey
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
– E. B. White
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The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.
– Grover Norquist
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
– William James
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
– Thomas Paine
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The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.
– Mitt Romney
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The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.
– Derek Fisher
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The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
– Robert Collier
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
– Lord Acton
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
– Salman Rushdie
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The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
– Eliot Spitzer
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The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.
– Ron Wyden
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
– Noam Chomsky
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The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
– Alfred Marshall
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The power to investigate is a great public trust.
– Emanuel Celler
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The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region... are making by giving a chance to women.
– Atifete Jahjaga
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
– Lajos Kossuth
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The power of the computer is starting to spread.
– Bill Budge
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
– Augustus Hare
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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
– Laura Bush
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
– Wendell Pierce
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The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
– Mark Hyman
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The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
– Paul Wellstone
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
– Andrew Jackson
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
– James Madison
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The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
– Bob Woodward
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The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.
– Leonard Boswell
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
– Warren Farrell
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
– Barry Commoner
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The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.
– James Bovard
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The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
– Glenn Beck
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The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
– Giacomo Casanova
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The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
– Blaine Lee
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The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
– Jonathan Sacks
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The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
– John Boyd Orr
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
– Wallace Stevens
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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
– Charlie Chaplin
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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
– Meryl Streep
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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
– Andrew Jackson
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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
– Kevin Kelly
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
– Omar Bongo
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