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Quotations by Subject: Power (34 quotes)

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The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.: Tupac Shakur
Coincidences are a true paradox... on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences.: Josh Tenenbaum, quoted in "The Power of Coincidence," Psychology Today, July 2004
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.: Bill Hicks
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.: Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.: Douglas Pagels
Here's what I've learned about dogs: They're a lot like pretty girls. Having one or two around makes everything more fun, but when you get a whole bunch together, it turns into one big power struggle.: Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.: Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, 2005

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