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Well there are those that you wield and those that you join.
Richard Murdoch /
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Even a very little girl can wield a slide rule, the cursor serving as a haft.
Hope Jahren /
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Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
Daniel Ortega / President Of Nicaragua
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. Buckminster Fuller / Architect
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Waving the banner of my coaches is a heavy flag to wield, so it's something I take very serious.
Shayna Baszler /
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The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
John Boehner / Speaker Of The United States House Of Representatives
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Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.
Neil Degrasse Tyson / Astrophysicist
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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 / Singer
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
Beau Willimon / Playwright
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Nationwide injunctions not only allow district courts to wield unprecedented power, they also allow district courts to wield it asymmetrically.
William Barr /
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I used to have a Milton steel water bottle that I would wield like a hammer, almost! My answer to all my bullies was to take out my bottle and hit them.
Masaba Gupta /
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I like to think I'm one of the least athletic people in real life. I don't do a whole lot when I'm left to my own devices except wield forks and knives.
Tessa Thompson / Film Actress
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Forks
Real Life
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Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals on expenses, are beyond satire.
Jack Monroe /
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Meals
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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 / Burmese Politician
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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 / Commentator
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Here's the problem with downplaying the radical nature of decommodification: when you empty something of political content, politicians are free to wield symbols as they please.
Ash Sarkar /
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A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.
Glenn Greenwald / Journalist
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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 / Businessman
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
Bat For Lashes / Singer-Songwriter
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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 / Film Actor
Time Your Me
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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 / Actor
Britain
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Newspapers
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Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.
Howard Rheingold / Writer
Letters
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Traditional
Power Great More
Audiences
Respond
Editor
Globally
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Instantly
Journalists
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I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to rely on our history of victimization as our primary source of power to wield within society.
Shelby Steele / Author
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America
Black
Black America
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Rely
Victimization
Within
Again
Begun
Point
Primary
Sadly
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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 / Astronomer
Weaponry
Alien
Resource
Scientists
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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 / U.s. Representative
Iran
Persist
Sides
Tehran
Terror
Threatening
Coin
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
Yehuda Berg / Author
Delicate
Insignificant
Powerless
Actions
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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 / United States Senator
Fairness
Immigrants
Representation
Checked
Power Live People
Power Country People
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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 / Author
Knowledge
Accepted
America
Determine
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Political
Political Power
Resources
Social
Power Society Political
Knowledge Power Society
Greatest
Power Knowledge Society
Counts
Define
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I'm against unanswerable concentrations of power, whether that be government or private industry or religious figures - anybody who is not accountable to the larger social climate or society for the power they wield, that concerns me. I'm very pro-democracy.
Daniel Suarez / Author
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Anybody
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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 / Author
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Conservative
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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 / Songwriter
Rock Star
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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 / Countess Of Lovelace
Future
Accurate
Analysis
Application
Language
Mankind
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Possession
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Vast
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'Toughness' and 'credibility' are leitmotifs that run through both Trumpian and Kissingerian deal-making. Both men insist that war and diplomacy are inseparable and that, to be effective, diplomats need to be able to wield threats and offer incentives in equal, unrestricted measure.
Greg Grandin /
Credibility
Diplomacy
Diplomats
Incentives
Inseparable
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I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.
Neil Degrasse Tyson / Astrophysicist
Quality
Academic
Aerospace
Labor
Presidential
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Unions
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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 /
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking / Philosopher
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I no longer wield the power of the office for the government of the church, but in the service of prayer I remain, so to speak, within St. Peter's bounds. St. Benedict, whose name I bear as pope, shall be a great example in this for me. He showed us the way to a life which, active or passive, belongs wholly to the work of God.
Pope Benedict Xvi /
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