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I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power...

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I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power...

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I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power...

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I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power...

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I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power...

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I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power...

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I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power...

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Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are go...

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Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods enteri...

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To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do the...

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The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets...

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Brandon SandersonAlcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics...

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Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high ...

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If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by ...

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Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warm...

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Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over?...

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I’m sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to.

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by ...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of ...

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I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth ...

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It lent a Man a certain peace of mind... to ride through threats and terrors unhearing: it even lent...

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C. J. CherryhFortress of Dragons

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men wi...

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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the wa...

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I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses ...

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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inheren...

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Once war was considered the business of soldiers, international relations the concern of diplomats. ...

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P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between ...

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C. Wright MillsThe Sociological Imagination

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind ...

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It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowl...

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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a pre...

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reje...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looki...

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Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing w...

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Value your parabatai," he said. "For it is a precious bond. All love is precious. It is why we do wh...

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Can I tell you a boring science fact?" she whispered. "I bet you didn't learn it in Shadowhunter his...

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She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, eit...

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Power will always attract the greedy and the weak.

Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal...

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The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and t...

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that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from ...

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In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on ...

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The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from ou...

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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...

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Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power....

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Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive sto...

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In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who ...

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Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreogr...

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

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The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ...

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His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outli...

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It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has ...

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I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...

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Christopher HitchensThe Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nati...

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Christopher HitchensThomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wield...

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Christopher HitchensUnacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars,Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers,Or wither'd ...

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Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a...

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You gain power by pretending to be weak.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same w...

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Chuck PalahniukInvisible Monsters

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way...

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Some people still think knowledge is power.

If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your...

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I had a Spanish teacher in high school. I rarely got in trouble in her room because I felt I was dis...

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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both fi...

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I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

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Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. ...

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All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You...

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Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority...

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Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, t...

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By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!

He was in awe of the thirst that people had for someone to tell them that everything was going to be...

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Craig FergusonBetween the Bridge and the River

The one thing women love more than money is power.

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character i...

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Dallas WillardThe Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuil...

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Dan AbnettDoctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By

Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture -...

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There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when on...

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Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas maybe we do so because those ideas are...

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Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent...

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Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast.

Women, he would say, are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the...

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The...

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It's said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. Th...

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David BrinThe Postman

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, a...

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In other words if a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. One ca...

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David GraeberFragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

Power makes you lazy. Insofar as our earlier theoretical discussion of structural violence revealed ...

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Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we'r...

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If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would b...

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... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; ha...

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