#pow

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#ago #blank #down #empowering #exist

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#achieve #capable #east #europe #middle

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#creature #error #greatest #miserable #miserable creature

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ↗

— Voltaire

#greater #harm #i #know #life

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. ↗

— Voltaire

#anything #call #cannot #existence #feeling

Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs. ↗

— Greg Walden

#america #cell #central #columbia #creating

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies. ↗

— Dreama Walker

#comedies #comedy #empowered #female #god

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses. ↗

— Scott Walker

#big government #bosses #empower #government #handful

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people. ↗

— Scott Walker

#bargaining #clear #collective #collective bargaining #debate

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures. ↗

— Larry Wall

#arbitrary power #basic #different #different kinds #different people