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Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less… — Barack Obama
Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The globalisation of information makes people aware of what they have - and have not. Problems and oppression are impossible to hide, and the new… — Anna Lindh
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts… — Richard Dawkins
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And… — Kim Stanley Robinson
The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they… — Edward Bernays
While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority… — Conrad Black
The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else… — Noam Chomsky
It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of the moon being… — Noam Chomsky
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent. States are violent… — Noam Chomsky
Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or… — Noam Chomsky
No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On… — Charles Koch
All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why. — Bill O'Reilly
Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it. — Peter Watts
Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run… — Francis Bacon
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial… — Kofi Annan
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn
I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible,… — Jose Mujica
It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know what they were… — Jose Mujica
We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits,… — Jose Mujica
It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of… — Jose Mujica
We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything… — Jose Mujica
We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than the world. We… — Jose Mujica

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