Quotes 341 till 360 of 1045.
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In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
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In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before.
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In its final stages the civilization becomes a dualism of almost totalitarian imperial power and an amorphous mass culture of atomized individuals.
Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
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In many cases, Obama's exercise of authoritarian power is criminal. His executive branch is responsible for violations of the Arms Export Control Act in shipping weapons to Syria, the Espionage Act in Libya, and IRS law with regard to the targeting of conservative groups.
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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
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In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory - horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene - and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.
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In the age of globalization pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.
Source: Jose Manuel Barroso's State of the European Union Speech (2012) -
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
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In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
Source: Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776 -
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.
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