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I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
Anthony Wayne
Morning
Tomorrow
Power
Shoes
Barefoot
Shall
Troops
Could
Almost
Until
Camp
Begin
Move
Procure
March
My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me.
Antoine Predock
Me
Made
Power
Pay
Pay Attention
Sun
Winds
Take
Clear
Attention
Baggage
Beginnings
Southwest
Site
Where
Palpable
Here
In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life.
Anton Corbijn
Life
Time
Joy
Word
Power
Big
Ambition
Intimacy
Say
Photo
Photo Shoot
Photographed
Would
More
Had
Division
Longer
Joy Division
Like
Bowie
Well
Felt
Got
Shoot
Moved
Special
England
Images
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.
Antonin Scalia
War
Together
Will
Power
Congress
Corrupt
Tends
Make
Felt
Get
Stop
Anything
Wants
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Act
Use
Washington
Ever
Resides
As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.
Antonin Scalia
You
Man
Power
Young
White
White House
Corrupt
Tends
House
Young Man
If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.
Arabella Weir
You
People
Power
Duty
Out
Any
Being
Then
Help
Help People
Popular
Ever since the first power looms put weavers out of work in the late 18th century, technology has increased productivity but threatened jobs for humans.
Arancha Gonzalez
Work
Technology
Power
First
Increased
Late
Out
Jobs
Threatened
Put
Since
Century
Productivity
Ever
Humans
From the Fourth Amendment to post-Watergate reforms to the national outcry when Bush's warrantless surveillance was revealed in 2005, the United States has a strong tradition of overseeing the government's power to spy on its citizens.
Ari Melber
Government
Strong
Power
National
States
Citizens
Revealed
Tradition
Overseeing
Spy
Surveillance
Amendment
Reforms
Bush
United
United States
Fourth
When a government forcibly holds enough people indefinitely without trial, it evokes the kinds of raids, detention, and abuses of power associated with authoritarian states - or darker periods in American history.
Ari Melber
Government
History
People
Power
Enough
Enough People
Trial
States
Indefinitely
Darker
Kinds
Detention
Abuse
Periods
Without
Authoritarian
American
Holds
American History
Associated
Even George W. Bush, who as president pushed the boundaries of executive power, never proposed a statutory scheme to hold people indefinitely.
Ari Melber
People
Power
President
Indefinitely
Statutory
Scheme
Proposed
Never
Pushed
Boundaries
Executive
Executive Power
George
George W
George W. Bush
Hold
Bush
Who
Even
I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.
Arianna Huffington
Work
Eyes
Power
Way
Hungry
Stay
Eat
Through
Open
Up
Just
Used
Even
Keep
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel Dorfman
Fate
Responsibility
Power
Secretary
Through
Without
Ages
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
Ariel Dorfman
Good
You
Yourself
Power
Side
Out
Bad
Only
Tendency
Come
Revolutionaries
Then
Show
Among
On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Britain and the United States, in order to discuss saving the Jews of Europe. In fact, the participants did everything in their power to avoid dealing with the problem.
Ariel Sharon
Problem
Power
Jews
Saving
Everything
States
April
Fact
Participants
Participation
Dealing
Discuss
Conference
Did
Representatives
In Fact
Order
Avoid
Europe
United
United States
Britain
Gathered
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
Aristotle
Matter
Power
Impress
Sense
Wax
Way
Takes
Piece
Without
Itself
Iron
Gold
Sensible
Which
Forms
Things
Receiving
When I'm fully fit, I have power and pace; then I feel good on the pitch.
Arjen Robben
Good
Feel Good
Power
Feel
Fit
Pitch
Pace
Then
Fully
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
Arlen Specter
Power
Judiciary
Separation
Says
Supposed
Qualified
Supreme
Supreme Court
Court
Judges
Does
Judiciary Committee
Committee
Confirm
Then
Function
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Relationship
People
World
Somebody
Power
Percent
Over
How
Authority
Behave
Them
Watch
Need
I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I have pictures of my daughters.
Art Alexakis
Power
Kind
Guy
Daughters
Pictures
Always
Been
Lot
Hang
Really
Now
We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
Arthur Ashe
Love
Education
Respect
Women
Old
Men
Power
Young
Believe
Our
Ourselves
Must
Laws
Well
Just
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
Arthur Goldberg
Age
Law
Illusion
Power
Our
Ruled
Menace
Afford
Cannot
Which
Served
Nuclear
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
Arthur Henderson
Politics
War
Welcome
Balance
Power
Wish
Country
Preparation
Every
Anarchy
Would
Almost
Balance Of Power
Return
Because
Opinion
Conclusion
Which
International
Elements
For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
Arthur Sullivan
Music
Myself
You
Wonderful
Thought
Power
Astonished
Say
Hideous
Bad
Record
Only
Somewhat
Results
Developed
Put
Terrified
Am
Forever
May
Experiments
Much
Evening
We keep discussing nuclear power and other issues, but we should spare a thought to the basic needs of our women.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Needs
Basic Needs
Women
Thought
Power
Other
Our
Issues
Discussing
Spare
Should
Keep
Nuclear
Basic
Nuclear Power
There is potential for more Chinese investment in India's infrastructure, and there are already Chinese investors in India's power and telecoms sector as well as the banking and payments space.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Space
Power
Sector
India
More
Potential
Investment
Investors
Well
Banking
Chinese
Infrastructure
Payments
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
Arundhati Roy
Relationship
World
Sometimes
Power
Think
Those
Divided
Adversarial
Comfortable
Naturally
Who
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