Quotes 201 till 220 of 983.
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Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women's cosmic sexual power.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.
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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
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For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
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For nuclear power to have a future, we'll either need more Yucca Mountains or a way to decrease the stuff we put there.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
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For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 05 min 20 sec -
For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.
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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111 -
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
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Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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