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 What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful

 What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful

 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

 Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children.

 Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

 Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
  Benjamin Disraeli

 Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
  Benjamin Disraeli

 They're in convoys, taking the same risks as the male solders and Marines. The biggest risk here at the moment are those roadside bombs, the explosive devices. They're getting increasingly sophisticated and increasingly powerful. And there seems to be almost a never-ending supply of suicide bombers, all of them said to be foreign fighters still coming through here.

 The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

 Those who need anonymity are not only the poor and the powerless, those whose lives or jobs might be in jeopardy if they speak up publicly, but even the powerful, ... All are entitled to anonymity if they are telling the truth and have something of importance to say to the American people.

 The kids need to be out there and learn about it, ... Getting out there and seeing it is critical. You learn about something like the Asian oyster, who cares? You can look at it in a book or you can do it, and then it becomes powerful.

 Part of the reason (motherly advice) bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do.
  Deborah Tannen

 In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

 People get stuck on power, but good swings can generate effortless speed, not powerless speed. Powerless speed comes from this violent effort to swing the club, and that's not how it works.

 Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
  Lou Holtz


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