Powerful Quotes

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Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the… — Isaiah Berlin
Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. — Richard Bach
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other… — Dean Koontz
Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that… — Dean Koontz
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. — Paulo Coelho
When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder. — Elwyn Brooks White
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people.… — Franz Kafka
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it.… — Charles Frazier
Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on… — Anton Szandor LaVey
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what… — Paul Auster
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. — Mother Teresa
How does fear become so powerful? We canâ€™t see it. We canâ€™t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control… — Gena Showalter
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. — Paulo Coelho
The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how… — Bill Hicks
Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with… — Timothy Keller
When each day is the same as the next, itâ€™s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day… — Paulo Coelho
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order… — Clifford D. Simak

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