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A woman, like a man, should be treated with human decency, according to the rule of law, and free of the abusive, unjust exercise of power. And you don't need to have plumbed the depths of the female or male psyche to live in accord with these principles of civilized life and the maxims of a free society.

Bill Kristol

LifeLivePowerWomanManLaw

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Thomas Paine

InspirationalPowerWorldOverBegin

The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.

Nick Harkaway

PowerResponsibilityInternetChoice

People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Linda Blair

DogGodPowerPetPeopleTreat

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

Daryl Hannah

PowerInfluenceWorldYouNowRight

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George

PowerLightManInfluenceWherever

All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.

David Hepworth

FailurePowerNameEndPoliticalUp

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.

Vladimir Putin

PowerWorldMatterSingleMaster

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

Riccardo Muti

PowerSolitudeStandIslandRather

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

PowerObservationCynicismGotWho

If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.

Janelle Monae

WomenPowerWalkYouMoreRoom

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

Ernest Mandel

LivePowerDayImpossibleEvery Day

Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.

Bill Dedman

PowerPlantsThoughtWhyCalifornia

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

Todd Gitlin

PowerMediaUsNavigationSort

My first song was 'So Sick,' which was my first number one as an artist, and I turned the mic around to the crowd, and they sang the whole song. Every lyric. That was my first experience with the power of music.

Ne-Yo

MusicPowerExperienceSongSick

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.

Linda Lavin

PowerGreatTimeMyselfMeWriting

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

Daniel Day-Lewis

PowerAlwaysVocationFeltVery

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Henry David Thoreau

LifeLivePowerMyselfMeWorld

All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we have to live with that fact.

David J. C. MacKay

LoveLivePowerSmallFactUnit

If forced to choose my favourite film, I would have to say 'Raging Bull' because it was the first feature film I worked on, and it was like having pure gold in my hands. But my husband's film 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' is equally a favourite because of its enormous emotional power.

Thelma Schoonmaker

LifePowerDeathGoldHusbandHands

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.

Richard Cobden

PowerGreatGovernmentIndiaCompany

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

George Edward Woodberry

PowerLanguageGeniusIndependent

Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.

Julian Barnes

LovePowerYouParisArtsArgue

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.

Freeman Dyson

TechnologyPowerGovernmentWorld

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