#power

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth. ↗

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

#formidable #more #power #than #truth

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easily #make #power #room #solitude

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #condition #easily #effort #our

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#enough #laughter #never #power #shared

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#both #digital #empowered #painterly #painters

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#powerful #than #think #treacherous #words

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other. ↗

— George Saunders

#desires #finds #found #know #most