961 private quotes tagged power

“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.” — Robert Burton

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“Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.” — Marc Andreessen

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“Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.” — Brigham Young

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“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.” — Groucho Marx

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“You can't trust anybody with power.” — Newt Gingrich

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“Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.” — Oliver Tambo

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“In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.” — Rick Warren

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“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.” — James A. Baldwin

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“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.” — Herbert Hoover

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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 Drucker

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“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” — Roseanne Barr

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“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” — Virginia Woolf

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“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.” — Noam Chomsky

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“In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.” — Marianne Williamson

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“I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.” — Robert Downey, Jr.

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“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” — John Stuart Mill

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“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” — James Allen

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“Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.” — Wole Soyinka

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“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” — Mao Zedong

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“Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.” — Joan Jett

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“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” — Honore de Balzac

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“All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.” — Malcolm X

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“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.” — Murray Rothbard

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