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'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
Deborah Norville
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Saul Alinsky
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
Jack Nicholson
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.
Ricky Martin
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Josh Billings
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Don DeLillo
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
Power is paradoxical.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig
I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
Paul Ryan
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
Louis C. K.
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
Noam Chomsky
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
Jon Meacham
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 18
Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George Orwell
The way to have power is to take it.
Boss Tweed
