Yet the power of love conquers all, along with good music and entertaining dances.
The creative search may be endless, but in those rare moments when the artist finds what he is seeking, art can have the same power as love.
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Then came the 1960s, a decade not just of flower-power and free love but of social upheaval in which serious crimes soared.
Yet the rousing finish exalts another element of the will to freedom: the power of romantic love to loosen the bonds of indifferent institutions.
You know immediately that all the things you usually think are necessary in order for you to feel fulfilled and satisfied (wealth, power, true love, more stuff) are truly icing on the cake.
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In their lives and in their tragic deaths they showed the power and strength of love.
"A lot of books that relate to communing with the higher power, relate to love, " he says.
"If the past celebrated lust and greed and love of power, the future will celebrate continence and humility and altruism, " Hamlin Garland said.
Schiller (and doctored history) are also the basis of Verdi's "Don Carlos, " but Verdi and his librettists took a much deeper look at the intersection of love, power and politics than Donizetti did.
He was having a love affair with power but in the end he couldn't deliver and I think he was fed up.
The singer has plumped for a cover of Whitney Houston's power ballad I Will Always Love You, itself a rendition of a Dolly Parton penned track.
But capacitor banks tend to be very large and hard to site near customers (who love to guzzle power but complain about new power lines or hardware in their neighbourhood).
It provides the characters and visual poetry on which to project our deepest feelings about the persistence of love, the power of friendship and the joy of embracing life toward the end of life.
Boredom and peer pressure and the love of personal power and wealth, and all the other mundane and often ugly personal drives that have a force that can exceed the most profound political or religious beliefs -- and for that reason have often built or broken empires.
"I love the feeling of power, the anointing that moves on me when I handle snakes, " he said.
Picasso's work was an embodiment of masculine power, filled with vitality and love of life, up till his death in 1973 at the age of 91.
He learned that love is the greatest power in the universe, and invited his prison warders to his inauguration as the first democratic President of South Africa.
With His love, forgiveness and power.
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Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty or ideal love.
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"This could mean buying a virtual gift for a potential love interest, buying a power-up to defeat your old classmate in a friendly competition, or buying a nice accessory for your virtual home, " Smith said.
People in love (particularly those publicly in love) possess no real bargaining power, which expresses itself only when we demonstrate our willingness to walk away.
However, governments love to govern and show off their power, so they loved fixed exchange rates.
Only the love of a good woman has the power to relight his fuse.
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