Yet the power of love conquers all, along with good music and entertaining dances.
Gabrielle Aplin's cover version of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's The Power Of Love has entered at number 36 after just over 24 hours on sale - it features in the new John Lewis Christmas ad campaign.
Yet the rousing finish exalts another element of the will to freedom: the power of romantic love to loosen the bonds of indifferent institutions.
The World Gold Council (WGC) reaffirmed the power of the Love Trade in its 2011 Gold Demand Trends report released this week.
We are in love with football players, with their courage and grit, and nothing else neither considerations of science nor those of morality can compete with the destructive power of that love.
In their lives and in their tragic deaths they showed the power and strength of love.
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.
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In a society ruled by the love of money and the love of equality, big federal budgets inherently mean big government power a power exercised in a way that far exceeds the limits desired in a free society.
"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.
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.
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.
The arguments in favour of national pay scales are that, of course, the public sector unions love them for this is where much of their power comes from.
Football has the power to change lives and these youngsters are able to learn valuable lessons through their love of the game.
Only the love of a good woman has the power to relight his fuse.
Covering a geographic range from England to Africa (the author's home continent for most of her early years), Lessing's stories achieve a cumulative power, delivering us news about the pleasures and costs of love, marriage, politics and social life.
He frames them incisively, ruefully, and nostalgically, as he aims lightheartedly at a darker purpose: connecting love and power, he suggests the virtue of exerting principled authority, whether in business, in politics, or in art and shows the risks that come with the pleasures and responsibilities of doing so.
It is also about the power of curiosity, which can drive two guys to wander the world to find out about a man whose music they love.
Then came the 1960s, a decade not just of flower-power and free love but of social upheaval in which serious crimes soared.
Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in an interview with an Indian TV network on the day of elections that returned him to power, said he would love to visit India if invited and then, with a disarming chuckle, added that he would go even without an invitation.
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"A lot of books that relate to communing with the higher power, relate to love, " he says.
In the aftermath, the characters scatter to other cities in China, or go into exile in Berlin, where the love affairs lose their power they become the last flings of a defeated generation.
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.
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.
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