Powerful Quotes

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In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world. — Albert Bushnell Hart
When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95%… — Donald Evans
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most… — Jack Schwartz
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to… — Robert Morgan
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish… — Robert Morgan
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land… — Amos Oz
That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity… — Douglas Wood
The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful,… — Lester B. Pearson
Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I… — Sam Sheppard
Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we… — Hermann von Helmholtz
These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are… — Giraldus Cambrensis
You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent… — Martin Van Buren
But I believe that the DPKO at this time was very much involved with American administration and was acting, taking on consideration the demand or… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution… — John Boyd Orr
With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them… — Justin Guarini
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the… — Paul Robeson
But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on… — Robert Patterson
Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away. — Mary Hart
The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. — John Marshall Harlan

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