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Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.

I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.