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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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• Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real

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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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• I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Strong, Hurt

  "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

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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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• There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.

  Thomas Huxley

  Real, Men, Talking

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

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• Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Influence, Byron

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• The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art

  Wynton Marsalis

  Art, Real, People

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• Let me explain something to you. Look around here. How many people do you count? Sixty, eighty, eighty people? Greeks, Germans, Italians, French, Americans. Tourists from everywhere. Eating, drinking, talking, laughing. And from Bombay - Indians and Iranians and Afghans and Arabs and Africans. But how many of these people have real power, real destiny, real dynamic for their place, and their time, and the lives of thousand of people? I will tell you - four. Four people in this room with power, and the rest are like the rest of the people everywhere: powerless, sleepers in the dream.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dream, Real, Drinking

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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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• 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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• Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

  George Orwell

  Real, Class, Essentials

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• The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

  Jane Rule

  Real, Book, Heart

  Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms.

  Marion Woodman

  Children, Real, Flower

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• But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

  John Nelson Darby

  Real, Character, Giving

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• Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.

  Zach Braff

  Real, Winning, Eight

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• What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Success, Real, Ebay

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• The real power of money is the power to give it away.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Inspiring, Real, Giving

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• The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more exact, absolute power, when through its results which are identical with those of opium, it puts all parts of humanity to sleep. If some occasionally awake they carry out crimes that horrify humanity which has not yet become Christian in the full sense of the word or has already abandoned the Christian framework.

  Bruno Bauer

  Christian, Real, Sleep

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• If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Real, Serious, Disability

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• You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Real, Wells, Meant To Be

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• The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Tangible, Sith

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.74, Tuttle Publishing

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• When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Real, Facts, Achieve

  Margaret Heffernan (2011). “Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Real, People, Dangerous

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