961 private quotes tagged power

“Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.” — Rainn Wilson

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“This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?” — Jerry Lewis

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“In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.” — Jeff Goodell

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“The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.” — Jon Meacham

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“The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.” — Jeff Goodell

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“One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.” — Jeff Goodell

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“Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.” — Jeff Goodell

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“Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.” — Charles Babbage

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“Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.” — Jackie Gleason

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“There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.” — Thomas Frank

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“I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.” — Isabel Allende

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“What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.” — Freeman Dyson

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“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” — Wilma Rudolph

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“I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.” — Tony Blair

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“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.” — Yoko Ono

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“My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.” — Carly Fiorina

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“The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.” — Franklin Pierce

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“A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.” — Henry A. Wallace

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“I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.” — Salma Hayek

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“My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.” — Clay Aiken

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“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.” — Isabel Allende

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“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” — Mary McLeod Bethune

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“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” — Robert Anthony

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