Powerful Quotes
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Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life
— Andrew Lias
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You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy,the tallest guy in…
— Chris Rock
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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality…
— John W Gardner
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Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action . .…
— William Bernbach
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Action is eloquence.
— William Shakespeare
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We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.
— Albert Bandura
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Why does insanity always twist the great answers? Because only tormented persons want truth. Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and success…
— Robinson Jeffers
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I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music is a very…
— Christine Anderson
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Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting
— Edmund Burke
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Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is…
— Mohammed Aldouri
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Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily…
— Anacharsis
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There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in…
— Tucker Carlson
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What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have…
— John Carpenter
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I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.
— Marianne Faithfull
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As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're…
— Ben Chandler
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This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very…
— Warren Christopher
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Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age. [About Bill Gates]
— Scott McNealy
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Imagination is more powerful and interesting than knowledge.
— Senoraroy
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Life is never what we imagine it is. Great illusions are so powerful, when we want them to be true
— Senoraroy
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