Potent Quotes
269 quotes by 235 authors
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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
— Steven Biko
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The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
— Lucretius
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After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to…
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using…
— Cesar Chavez
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Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
— Julia Cameron
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Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings
— Euripides
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The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and…
— H. L. Mencken
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From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
— Hosea Ballou
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I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.
— Euan Uglow
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Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood,…
— William Buckland
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Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the 'facts' of culture…
— Jerry Sabloff
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In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the physical.…
— Corinne Heline
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Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
— Patch Adams
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FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.
— Bill Phillips
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Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.
— Eric Hoffer
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Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer…
— William Irwin Thompson
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Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's a reason a three-minute song…
— Lou Reed
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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in…
— Albert Einstein
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