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In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and… — Paul Harris
Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the… — Jerry Costello
Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict… — Robert B. Laughlin
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. — Robert Shea
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful. — Clyde Tombaugh
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. — Giovanni Agnelli
And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version… — Erno Rubik
And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to… — Barbara Castle
Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now,… — Ernestine Rose
I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful… — Galen Rowell
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

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