Powerful Quotes

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The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument… — David Foster Wallace
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. — Benjamin Disraeli
"In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a spiritual idea embedded… — Bill Moyers
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature. — Immanuel Kant
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition -… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Who is all-powerful should fear everything. — Pierre Corneille
Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex, when a young… — Rajneesh
There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in… — Norman Mailer
In my early 20s, I had this idea that I was going to front a band, like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. I didn't just… — Pat Benatar
A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of… — Allen Lacy
Positive and powerful: Sometimes people won't like me, and it's okay. Positive and powerful: I like me, and that's all that matters. Positive and powerful:… — Beverly Engel
We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids]. — Nancy Lublin
To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us. — Ariel Garten
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Gautama Buddha
There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. — Sophocles
If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
Keeping your mind open in the face of uncertainty is the single most powerful secret of unleashing your creative potential. — Michael J. Gelb
The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council.… — Marion Nestle
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because… — Plato

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