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You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis. — John R. Allen
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in… — Ulrich Beck
For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the… — Albert Claude
Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent… — P. Chidambaram
Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and… — Stafford Cripps
We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be. — Matt Drudge
If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that… — Ted Dekker
My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy. — Cai Guo-Qiang
Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know,… — Alice Englert
The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. — Lawrence Eagleburger
There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand… — Rupert Everett
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ essentially… — Thomas Jefferson
Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall. — Paul Simon
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race… — Francis William Aston
If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to… — Plato
An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those… — George Papandreou
How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves?… — John C. Calhoun
America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers… — Richard Allen Epstein
...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain).… — Joseph Sobran
Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost… — Ron Paul

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