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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Power Corrupts
Fear
Losing
Corrupts
Power
Those
Subject
Scourge
Who
Wield
Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.
Ben Shapiro
Thought
Club
Way
Individualistic
Tenure
Powerless
Protect
Also
Historically
Against
Used
Professors
Defended
Wield
In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
Pat Boone
Good
Me
Culture
Try
Power
Entertainers
Athletes
Seems
Only
Make
Influence
Where
Right
Wield
A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
Ada Lovelace
Future
Language
Become
Analysis
Speedy
Our
Possession
Possible
More
Purposes
Vast
Developed
Powerful
New
Rendered
Practical
Than
Truths
Accurate
Hitherto
May
Which
Mankind
Means
Use
Application
Wield
People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.
Ratan Tata
Great
People
Car
Power
Evidence
Adequate
Out
Great Power
Without
Fallen
Go
Jail
Bodies
Who
Lesser
Found
Wield
Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law.
Hugh Grant
Law
Power
Become
Live
Incredible
Our
Kind
Ministers
Mafia
Some
Above
Prime
Prime Ministers
Governments
Families
Closer
Newspapers
Choose
Britain
Wield
Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft.
Hope Jahren
Girl
Slide
Rule
Very
Little
Little Girl
Even
Serving
Wield
What makes you a rock star is what are you able to do when you get behind that microphone, when you put that guitar in your hands, when you wield those drumsticks, and when you raise your hand in front of twenty thousand people: do they respond? That's being a rock star.
David Draiman
You
People
Guitar
Those
Respond
Thousand
Able
Put
Makes
Rock
Rock Star
Hand
Get
Hands
Microphone
Front
Behind
Being
Your
Twenty
Star
Raise
Wield
Waving the banner of my coaches is a heavy flag to wield, so it's something I take very serious.
Shayna Baszler
Waving
Something
Take
Very
Flag
Heavy
Banner
Coaches
Serious
Wield
Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei and Assad are two sides of the same terror coin. Letting Assad continue to wield lethal power means that Tehran's terror network - from Hezbollah to the Houthis - will persist in threatening the West.
Mike Pompeo
Will
Power
Sides
Tehran
Threatening
Network
Terror
Continue
West
Iran
Persist
Same
Means
Lethal
Letting
Two
Coin
Wield
When we in Congress set the terms under which immigrants in this country must live, we wield a power that is checked primarily by our individual sense of fairness: the power to set taxes and make laws that apply to people who do not have representation.
Mazie Hirono
People
Power
Country
Sense
Congress
Live
Our
Immigrants
Must
Laws
Individual
Primarily
Checked
Terms
Make
Fairness
Representation
Which
Taxes
Who
Apply
Set
Wield
Some of the actors who came to cinema much later than me have tried their hand at direction. But, I don't intend to wield megaphone anytime soon, since it is tough and requires a lot of your time.
Vikram
Time
Me
Cinema
Tough
Later
Tried
Some
Direction
Soon
Since
Came
Hand
Lot
Than
Intend
Anytime
Much
Requires
Your
Who
Actor
Wield
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
Nancy Pearcey
Knowledge
Political
Political Power
Power
Society
Resources
Define
Those
Determine
Facts
Counts
Knowledge-Based
Accepted
Greatest
Material
America
Where
Information
Social
Much
Therefore
Wield
In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?
Seth Shostak
Problems
Alien
Resource
Would
Solve
Weaponry
See
Able
Something
General
Particular
Like
Talk
Sort
Scientists
Script
Them
Technical
Wield
Our post-denominational age should be the perfect time for a Mormon to become president, or at least the Republican nominee. Mormons share nearly all the conservative commitments so beloved of the evangelicals who wield disproportionate influence in primary elections.
Noah Feldman
Time
Age
Conservative
Become
President
Our
Perfect
Mormon
Mormons
Share
Primary
Nominee
Least
Commitments
Influence
Republican
Elections
Should
Evangelicals
Who
Disproportionate
Nearly
Beloved
Wield
I saw 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was four years old. Sure, I thought Princess Leia was awesome. But the character I identified with most was Luke Skywalker. I left the theater certain the Force was strong with me, that I could train to be a Jedi and wield a lightsaber just like Luke.
Rae Carson
Time
Character
Me
Strong
Old
Thought
First
Awesome
Saw
Could
Like
Most
Princess
Identified
Force
Sure
First Time
Years
Left
Train
Just
Leia
Theater
Certain
Wars
Jedi
Star
Star Wars
Luke
Four
Wield
Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
Daniel Ortega
Great
Win
Will
Power
Ripe
Triumph
Great Power
Conditions
Here
Wield
Well there are those that you wield and those that you join.
Richard Murdoch
You
Those
Join
Well
Wield