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3 December 2020 Julius Caesar

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

3 December 2020 James Madison

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

3 December 2020 Charles Kingsley

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

3 December 2020 Charlotte Lennox

The law has no power over heroes.

3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell

Bloomberg’s $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

3 December 2020 Craig T. Nelson

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that’s what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.

3 December 2020 Stephen Covey

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

3 December 2020 Wayne Dyer

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.

3 December 2020 Salma Hayek

I love being a wife and homemaker – because it’s my choice. My husband doesn’t expect me to do it. I don’t mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.

3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

3 December 2020 Steve Forbes

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people’s money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

3 December 2020 Deborah Norville

‘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.

3 December 2020 Alice Walker

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

3 December 2020 Annie Lennox

I’m appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

3 December 2020 Maimonides

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.

3 December 2020 Abigail Adams

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

3 December 2020 Peter Drucker

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

3 December 2020 Alexander the Great

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

3 December 2020 Amy Tan

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

3 December 2020 Viktor E. Frankl

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

3 December 2020 Phillips Brooks

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

3 December 2020 Daniel Day-Lewis

I’d always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

3 December 2020 Barbara Corcoran

Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

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