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Absolute Power is a 1997 American political action thriller film produced by, directed by, and starring Clint Eastwood as a master jewel thief, Luther Whitney, who witnesses the killing of a woman by Secret Service agents. [3] The screenplay by William Goldman is based on the 1996 novel Absolute Power by David Baldacci.
The only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet, [5] and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet [6] (who succeeded to the baronetcy and estates held by another branch of the Acton family in Shropshire in 1791), Acton was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet, from 1837 to 1869.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely (John Dalberg-Acton, 1887) [6] Accidents will happen (in the best-regulated families) Actions speak louder than words; Adversity makes strange bedfellows; All good things come to him who waits; All good things must come to an end; All hands on deck/to the pump; All is grist that comes to the mill
For moments when you need an extra boost of motivation, these quotes about strength from leaders like Winston Churchill to Mahatma Gandhi will motivate you to push through the toughest of times ...
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; ... Political quotes; Quotations from literature; 1880s ...
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10. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 11. “Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on – that is, badly.”
It is necessary to believe that there is only one absolute power: necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit: need makes even the timid brave: Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline, 58:19 nemine contradicente (nem. con., N.C.D.) with no one speaking against: Less literally, "without dissent".