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I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay. -- Warren Farrell
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. -- Frank Chodorov
Who would not give up wit for power and beauty? -- Mason Cooley
When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -- Robert Anthony
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. -- Alice Walker
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle. -- Gloria Allred
I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they? -- Quentin Bryce
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. -- Arthur C. Clarke
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. -- Roger Mudd
I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice. -- Nawal El Saadawi
One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up. -- Jeff Goodell
Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy. -- Daniel Webster
It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power. -- Damien Chazelle
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. -- Samuel Johnson
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. -- Katherine Dunn
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. -- Marsha Sinetar
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. -- Mark Zuckerberg
My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. -- Sister Souljah
I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up. -- Rachel Maddow
Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. -- Kris Kristofferson
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical. -- Zadie Smith
For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts. -- Naomi Wolf

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