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  • Arthur Sullivan 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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  • Burton Richter For nuclear power to have a future, we'll either need more Yucca Mountains or a way to decrease the stuff we put there.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bill Moyers For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey 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.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Carl Sagan 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.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 05 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Brad Feld 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.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Audre Lorde 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.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Adam Michnik 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.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Salman Rushdie Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier 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.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Ayn Rand God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ben Parr Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Joan Didion Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Seneca Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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