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The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason.
Blaise Pascal

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 [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

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah Arendt

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter F Drucker

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
Leo Durocher

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
Anthony Bourdain

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
Letty Cottin

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.
Brian Koslow

The players who were great in their prime, well, they're still great. They might have lost a little of the power and speed, but their ball striking and technique is as good as ever.
Jeremy Bates

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.
Ossie Davis

Power is the by-product of understanding.
Jacob Bronowski

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

Never underestimate the power of passion.
Eve Sawyer

When the power of love conquers the love of power then the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

I know some photographs that are extraordinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.
Ansel Adams

Labour have already given parents the power to draw up plans for their own schools
Jim Knight

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

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert Hoover

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

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin

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

Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
David Ricardo

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power,
Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?
Sir Aubrey De Vere

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

'Yeah, baby! I didn't get to keep the pink baby doll outfit, but I wish I did because people are always telling me I should wear it.'
- on being a fem-bot in Austin Powers.
Cindy Margolis

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore De Balzac

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
J Martin Kohe

Talent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell Lowell

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

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber

Maybe when I turn 60... I'll have the power to speak to people and make them tremble a bit [on Alex Ferguson]
Jose Mourinho

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos

All political power is a trust.
Charles James Fox

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.
Jerry Cantrell

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo Da Vinci

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
Thomas Huxley

Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
King Abdullah II

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

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

If you are looking for a small slice of power then you could do worse than get involved in business.
Garet Garrett

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey Hepburn

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Beware of power - if you are given the option to have power be very certain of yourself before you decide to exercise that power.
Dario Fo

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.
Joseph Stalin

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

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.
Esther Dyson



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