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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. — Henry Ford
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. — Paulo Coelho
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs,… — Chuck Palahniuk
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively. — Dalai Lama
If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This… — Dave Barry
Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Nothing happens until something moves. — Albert Einstein
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet. — Philip Yancey
The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope… — Eduardo Galeano
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with… — Jack Kerouac
...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and… — Antonio Damasio
Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur,… — Hunter S. Thompson
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to… — Arundhati Roy
When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can… — Fred Rogers
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. — Arthur Golden
I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts… — Winston Churchill
The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued… — Salman Rushdie
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

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