961 private quotes tagged power

“The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.” — Eric Hoffer

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“Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.” — Scott Adams

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“The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.” — John Podhoretz

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“For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.” — George Whitefield

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“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.” — John Adams

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“Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.” — Tyler Perry

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“I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.” — Stephen King

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“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” — Charles A. Beard

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“Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.” — Arnold J. Toynbee

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“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.” — Salvador Dali

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“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” — Milton Friedman

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“I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.” — Harvey Fierstein

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“I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.” — Eli Whitney

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“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” — Irving Berlin

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“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.” — Roger Babson

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“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” — David Bailey

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“The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.” — Doug Coupland

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“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” — Benito Mussolini

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“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” — John Adams

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“Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.” — Thurgood Marshall

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“Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.” — Alice Walker

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“Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.” — William J. Clinton

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