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The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
David Ogilvy

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
Howard Dean

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
Robert Bork

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
Tammy Bruce

I admired Hitler because he came from being a little man with almost no education to power. But I didn't admire him for what he did with it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim Bishop

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
Blaise Pascal

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind
Rudyard Kipling

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Epictetus

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know you have it.
Ralph Ellison

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
James A Garfield

A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
Arnold Toynbee

Threats without power are like powder without ball.
Nathan Bailey

Extreme avarice is nearly always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future
Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Patience and Gentleness is Power
Leigh Hunt

Progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
Alex Campbell

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert Schuller

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.
George Samuel Clason

But he is a great manager, he is clever and used his power and his prestige. The referee should not allow it. I have a lot of respect for Ferguson. I call him boss because he is the manager's boss. Maybe when I become 60, the kids will call me the same.
Jose Mourinho

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Stanley Kubrick

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.
Roland Gift

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits
Robert Hall

He has the brain power of an iron filing [on Paul Gascoigne]
Marcus Berkman

Offense is the essence of air power.
Gen Henry Arnold

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
Wilfred A Peterson

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
Tom Brown Jr

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

We will fight this war on terror with every resource of our national power.
George W Bush

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
Aldous Huxley

No external power, no terrorist organisation, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
George Soros

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

I believe that there's an inner power that makes winners or losers.
Sylvester Stallone

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Dr Wayne Dyer

In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Michael Bloomberg

Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. It takes more courage to take a blow than give one. It takes more courage to try and talk things through than to start a war.
Mahatma Gandhi

It [thunderbirds march] was a really intense tune, very powerful and the whole imagery of gerry anderson who made all that stuff was really, really real to me - and those tunes were really well done - brilliant orchestration.
Adrian Utley

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.
John Ericsson

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.
Charles Manson

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society
Marya Mannes

The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!
Lord Byron

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer

A partnership with men in power is never safe
Phaedrus

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



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