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“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”— Saint Basil
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“Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.”— James Buchan
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“In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.”— Twyla Tharp
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“Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.”— Herbert Hoover
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“I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.”— Ofra Haza
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“We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.”— Manuel Puig
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“The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.”— James Lovelock
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“Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.”— Gwen Stefani
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“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”— Salman Rushdie
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“Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.”— Chris Martin
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“This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.”— Joe Biden
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“Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.”— Maimonides
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“I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.”— Todd Gitlin
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“Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.”— Charlotte Davis Kasl
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“I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .”— Anne Bronte
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“As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.”— Jessica Simpson
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“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”— Thomas Frank
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“The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.”— William Hague
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“I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.”— James Naismith
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“People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.”— Imran Khan
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“I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.”— Jack Kemp
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“The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.”— Kenneth Kaunda
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“The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.”— Kenny Loggins
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“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.”— James A. Garfield
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“When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.”— William Hague