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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
– James Fenimore Cooper
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It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
– Jon Corzine
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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
– Pierre de Coubertin
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I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
– Tom Cruise
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I say now and have often said before, Fathers of the Senate, that a well-disposed and helpful prince, to whom you have given such great and unrestrained power, ought to be the servant of the Senate, often of the citizens as a whole, and sometimes even of individuals.
– Tiberius
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Power has no limits.
– Tiberius
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To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.
– Tiberius
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
– Sarah Caldwell
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Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
– Annie Jump Cannon
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We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
– Neville Chamberlain
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Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.
– Lord Chandos
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Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.
– Henry Chester
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
– Tao Te Ching
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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
– Frank Chodorov
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The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
– Frank Chodorov
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Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase. Not the power to brainwash overnight, but the power to create subtle and real change. The power to prevail.
– Eric Clark
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Asked about the power of advertising in research surveys, most agree that it works, but not on them.
– Eric Clark
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Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us-it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.
– Abraham Clark
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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.
– William Cobbett
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A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.
– Paulo Coelho
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The more reliant we become upon computers and information systems, the more vulnerable we become to cyber-terrorists who will conceive unlimited ways to cripple our infrastructure, our power grids, our banking systems, our financial markets, our space based communications systems.
– William S. Cohen
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Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment.
– Eliot Cohen
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If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
– Morris Raphael Cohen
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One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.
– Rodney Collin
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The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
– Barbara Colorose
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If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
– Robert Conklin
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We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.
– Michael Connelly
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Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
– James Connolly
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I'm going to do everything in my power to convince the president that our national security demands at least 12 carriers, if not more.
– Ander Crenshaw
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The press likes to demonstrate its power by destroying lightweights, and pack journalism is never more doughty and complacent than when the pack has tacitly agreed that the candidate is a joke.
– Timothy Crouse
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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
– Ralph J. Cudworth
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The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.
– Ely Culbertson
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If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?
– Arthur Curley
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Women have the power of naming stolen from us.
– Mary Daly
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The proposition is this: that in a time of war the commander of an armed force... has the power... to suspend all civil rights and their remedies, and subject citizens... to the rule of his will... If true, [our] republican government is a failure, and there is an end of liberty regulated by law.
– David Davis
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At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
– Howard Dean
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I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
– Johnny Depp
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
– Joan Didion
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No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
– Marguerite Duras
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
– Ossie Davis
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
– George Deacon
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The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around... Throughout history, tender loving care has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
– Larry Dossey
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The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.
– Giulio Douhet
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Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
– Peter F. Drucker
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Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.
– Ronald D. Dworkin
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
– Charles Edwards
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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
– Tryon Edwards
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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
– Jonathan Edwards
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
– Albert Einstein
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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
– Albert Einstein
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About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
– Jane Elliot
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We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.
– Jane Elliot
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Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
– Henry Ellis
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Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
– Ralph Ellison
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars.
– Stephen Evans
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The power of a website comes from the people using it, not the people making it.
– Chris Edwards
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Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.
– John Ericsson
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America-bashing is addictive, born of power envy and nurtured by power lust among the weak, the cowardly and craven.
– Suzanne Fields
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Woman of nerve and thought, Bring in the urn your power! By you is manhood taught, To meet the supreme hour.
– Annie Adams Fields
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Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
– Charles Fillmore
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The geography of Kentucky is drawn not only on the map but also on the culture. Everyone here, regardless of age, lives as part of a generation that has yet to know the full power of true unity as Kentuckians, one and all.
– Ernie Fletcher
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
– Marshal Ferdinand Foch
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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.
– Jane Fonda
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Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
– Jean de La Fontaine
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Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
– Michael Foot
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The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
– Steve Forbes
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There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
– Henry Ford
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You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.
– Whitey Ford
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Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
– Betty Ford
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
– Michel Foucault
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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
– Michel Foucault
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
– Vicente Fox
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Up to now, each President has implemented purely personal projects while in office. The PRI used that to stay in power. Today, more than ever, we need to have a national plan of action that represents the consensus of all Mexicans. That's one of the things I'm trying to put together in this campaign.
– Vicente Fox
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All political power is a trust.
– Charles James Fox
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Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
– George Fox
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
– Sigmund Freud
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Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
– Bill Frist
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.
– Robert Frost
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
– James William Fulbright
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I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
– Allen Funt
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He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
– Nick Faldo
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Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.
– Eliza Farnham
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There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don't ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it.
– Sheryl Feldman
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When I was in Hollywood, I saw people piling up power, position, money, but I didn't see that they were happy. So I do things that make me happy. I write, I study, I do voiceovers, I do poetry readings, I do a play occasionally. I enjoy living.
– Barbara Feldon
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The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.
– James Fixx
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Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
– Michael Franti
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Power to the peaceful!
– Michael Franti
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Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
– Michael Franti
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The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist - virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.
– William Friedkin
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An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and a replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States - would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe the Romans.
– David Frum
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The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
– David Frum
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
– John Galsworthy
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
– John Galsworthy
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Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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