Quotes 241 till 260 of 963.
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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
Source: As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002) -
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
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I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
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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.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
Source: Quoted in The New Inquistions by Arthur Versluis -
I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
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I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
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I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.
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