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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
– David Mamet
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The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
– Henry Hazlitt
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The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
– Rick Perry
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The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
– Alfred Adler
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The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
– Franklin Pierce
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
– Tom Clancy
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The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.
– Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
– Harry Browne
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
– Benjamin Spock
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The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
– Natan Sharansky
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The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
– Richard Grimes
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The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.
– Christopher Alexander
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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
– David Bailey
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The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
– Ally Condie
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The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.
– John Podhoretz
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The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
– Neil Young
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That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.
– Dee Dee Myers
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That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
– Charles Eastman
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Tennis takes care of everything. It requires agility and quickness to get to the ball, core strength to get power into your shorts and stamina to last for an entire match. In addition to toning your arms and shoulders, it's a total body workout for your legs and abs, and works your heart and core unlike any other sport.
– Samantha Stosur
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Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.
– Marc Andreessen
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Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
– Jared Diamond
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Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
– Gordon Brown
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Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
– Mike Ditka
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Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
– Arnold J. Toynbee
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Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
– Doug Coupland
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
– James Q. Wilson
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So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
– David Bohm
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So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.
– Billy Sherwood
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Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.
– Mitt Romney
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
– Sri Aurobindo
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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
– Scott Adams
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Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
– Jerry Saltz
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Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
– Elisabeth Shue
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Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
– Yoko Ono
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
– Bertrand Russell
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
– Hans Kung
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Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.
– Julian Casablancas
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Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength.
– Stafford Cripps
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
– Stendhal
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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
– Henry A. Kissinger
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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
– Eliot Spitzer
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
– Edward Abbey
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
– Malcolm X
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Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
– Jill Scott
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
– John Steinbeck
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Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
– George Bernard Shaw
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Power and beauty come from a very deep place.
– Brooke Burke
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Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.
– Paul Wellstone
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Politics is not about power.
– Paul Wellstone
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
– Fareed Zakaria
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Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
– Alice Walker
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Police in China can do whatever they want after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
– Ai Weiwei
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
– Adrienne Rich
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Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
– Richard Eberhart
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
– Irving Babbitt
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
– Edmund Burke
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Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.
– Nancy Chodorow
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Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
– Mitt Romney
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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
– John Charles Polanyi
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One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
– Jim Carrey
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One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.
– David Simon
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Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
– David Brainerd
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Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
– Barack Obama
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Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.
– Muqtada al Sadr
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Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.
– Michael Burgess
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
– Naoto Kan
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Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
– Mitt Romney
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Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
– Thomas Love Peacock
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Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.
– William Moulton Marston
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Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
– Orson Pratt
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
– Jeremy Bentham
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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.
– William Ellery Channing
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No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.
– James Cash Penney
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
– Buenaventura Durruti
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Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
– Eric Sevareid
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
– Oliver Stone
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
– Ulrich Beck
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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
– David Seabury
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
– Samuel Johnson
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Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
– Ralph Merkle
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My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
– Paulina Rubio
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My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
– Clay Aiken
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My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
– Carly Fiorina
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My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
– Natasha Henstridge
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My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
– Ellen DeGeneres
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Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
– Abu Bakar Bashir
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Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
– Gary Wright
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
– Mary J. Blige
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
– Edgar Winter
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Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
– Elton John
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Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
– Gil Scott-Heron
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Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.
– Rob Sheffield
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Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.
– Kellan Lutz
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
– Garrett Hardin
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Money: power at its most liquid.
– Mason Cooley
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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
– Andrew Jackson
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Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
– Joichi Ito
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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