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Saturday, June 29th, 2024
the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Quotations regarding 'Power'

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It is important to consider whether the sample size selected by the Environmental Genome Project will provide sufficient power to discover most alleles relevant to gene-environment interactions.
Samuel Wilson, American Public Servant (1766-  )
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
Harold Wilson, English Statesman (1916-1995)
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
James Q. Wilson, American Politician (1931-  )
A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.
James Q. Wilson, American Politician (1931-  )
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson, American President (1856-1924)
That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.
Charles E. Wilson, American Businessman (1886-1972)
Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
Charles E. Wilson, American Businessman (1886-1972)
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson, English Writer (1931-  )
I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.
Mike Wilson, -
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer (1954-  )
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer (1954-  )
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer (1954-  )
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
Justin Winsor, American Writer (1831-1897)
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Edgar Winter, American Musician (1946-  )
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
William Wirt, American Statesman (1772-1834)
The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.
Isaac Mayer Wise, American Clergyman (1819-1900)
The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.
Reese Witherspoon, American Actress (1976-  )
A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe, American Journalist (1931-  )
Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.
James Wolfensohn, Australian Businessman (1933-  )
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Mary Wollstonecraft, British Writer (1759-1797)
 
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