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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortunes bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. – John Greenleaf Whittier

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasnt happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. – Jonathan Safran Foer

Censorship is saying: Im the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine. But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper. – Ai Weiwei

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you cant ever start a work of art. – Jeanne Moreau

I dont feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless theyre extremely well informed. – Ralph Fiennes

Its a lifes journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else. – Mariska Hargitay

I dont know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I dont cry. I say maybe its meant to be. – Ofra Haza

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitlers short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe its simply because I wasnt that committed to geometry. – Twyla Tharp

There is much to dislike about President Obamas approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch. – Thomas Frank

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didnt have any creative power, nothing. I dont know that person any more. – Gwen Stefani

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldnt use irony to reduce their power. – Manuel Puig

In the sense that youre not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesnt isnt unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts. – Peter Singer

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if Im the only person who cant understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when theyre not that great. These are questions everyone has. – Chris Martin

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says Im not sorry, and Id do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads. – William Hague

Its not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time. – Fareed Zakaria

As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. Its hard to find those men. – Jessica Simpson

I learned about the markets power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100. – Jack Kemp

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, its the best possible substitute for it. – James A. Garfield

People didnt wasnt the Peoples party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready. – Imran Khan