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• I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Heart, Blood

  "Moab Is My Washpot". Book by Stephen Fry, 1997.

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• In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Motivation, Real

  "100 Ways to Motivate Yourself". Book by Steve Chandler, 2004.

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• The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

  John Ralston Saul

  Real, Rejection, Bitterness

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• The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

  Joseph Stalin

  Real, Long, Rifles

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• To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Power, Needs

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• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Real, Defense

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• Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Real, Boys, Views

  "Please, stop the Mark Zuckerberg love train" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2010.

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• As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, Men, Doe

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Real, Knowing, Can Do

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• Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Hate, Real, Vampire Hunter

  "Fictional character: Henry Sturges". "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter", 2012.

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• Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac)

  Stephen Fry

  Fun, Real, Hate

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• The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Squares, Knowing

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

  Michael Scott

  Real, World, Modern

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.27, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, America, Tree

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.

  Debbie Macomber

  Real, Generosity, Giving

  Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be.

  Charles Duhigg

  Real, Habit, Insight

  FaceBook post by Charles Duhigg from Sep 15, 2016

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• There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

  Karen Nussbaum

  Peace, Real, Fighting

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• Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.

  Bell Hooks

  Dream, Real, Commitment

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• Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

  Matthew Pearl

  Real, Book, Literature

  Matthew Pearl (2015). “The Last Bookaneer: A Novel”, p.12, Penguin

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• Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is first lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

  Nora Ephron

  Running, Jobs, Real

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• Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well glory in their illicit sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more real power than their masters: but virtue is sacrificed to temporary gratifications, and the respectability of life to the triumph of an hour.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Real, Men, May

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.80

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• The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

  George Orwell

  Real, Fighting, Night

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I stopped making excuses for saying it and began creating boundaries in my life, I knew real power.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Real, Thinking, Creating

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• When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.126, Metropolitan Books

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• Theres a real power in heels and a good dress.

  Talulah Riley

  Real, Dresses, Heels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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