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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. -- Aneurin Bevan
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There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power. -- Alexandra Paul
it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks. -- Jane Jacobs
I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power. -- Allen Ginsberg
Power tends to get confused with repression. -- Olivia Wilde
Power is the ability to get things done. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again. -- Jerry Cantrell
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. -- Simone Weil
More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't. -- Chris Penn
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. -- Lincoln Steffens
Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne. -- Madonna Ciccone
Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power. -- Eric San
Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I. -- Alan Ladd
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. -- George Bernard Shaw
Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way. -- Yoko Ono
When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though. -- Penelope Spheeris
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do. -- Yoko Ono
It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power. -- Major Owens
Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse. -- Cat Power
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs. -- Samantha Power
I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with. -- Samantha Power
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War. -- Samantha Power
President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president. -- Samantha Power
To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it. -- Jean Chretien
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power. -- Thomas More
The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power. -- Tom Coburn
The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves. -- Bryant H. McGill
The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper... -- Ed Begley, Jr.
Never underestimate the power of telling a teenage boy he's risking his chances of getting laid. Works almost every time. -- Violet Cross
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no. -- Barbara Corcoran
Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me. -- Nigel Mansell
Every good thing depends on getting and keeping the power of the Holy Ghost in our lives. Everything depends on that. -- Lawrence E. Corbridge
I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power. -- Tupac Shakur
I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that. -- Charlize Theron
We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants. -- Baba Kalyani
Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things. -- Charlie Munger
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity. -- Nick Faldo
I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power. -- Joel Osteen
I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet. -- Jim Gilmore
By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances. -- Kenneth Copeland
Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000. -- Barton Gellman
Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones. -- Eddi Reader
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. -- George Soros
We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. -- George Soros
The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction. -- John McNally
~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~ -- Marcia Cross
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. -- Oswald Chambers

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