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• It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Numbers, Matter, Mediocre

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• Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Achieve, Wanted

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• To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

  Bill Crawford

  Two, Want, Firsts

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• I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

  Ray Lewis

  Football, Believe, Player

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• The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole.

  Pope Francis

  Communication, Media, People

  Pope Francis' Message For The 49th World Communications Day, w2.vatican.va. January 23, 2015.

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• The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

  Barbara Corcoran

  War, Home, Winning

  "Can't sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help" by Barbara Corcoran, www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

  Brandon Jay McLaren

  Teacher, School, Acting

  "Q&A – Brandon Jay McLaren (Bennet Ahmed)". AMCtv interview, www.amc.com. 2012.

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• Seeing is not always believing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Believe, Vision

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• By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.

  George Lopez

  Dream, Kids, Thinking

  "Seriously Funny". Interview with Brett Wilbur, www.carmelmagazine.com. February 1, 2007.

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• The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

  Ray Stevens

  Funny Things, Brain, Melody

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• We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, History, Historical

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.13, Beacon Press

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• Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

  Dawn French

  Play, Theatre, Saws

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• Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

  John Oliver

  Growing Up, Hero, Voice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (1947). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Growing Up, Character

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• We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Country, Successful, Reality

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• You don't want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our 'Truth,' and having tax-exempt organizations dedicated to atheism that have influential political action committees. We will also stop printing 'In atheism we trust' on all US currency and saying, 'One nation, under atheism" in the pledge of allegiance. We will also stop insisting that everyone who disagrees with us will be sentence to eternal damnation... Wait...

  David G. McAfee

  Doors, Organization, Waiting

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from May 27, 2014

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• Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.

  Daniel Suarez

  Your Side, House, Sides

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• Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Men, Giving

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

  Robbie Robertson

  Artist, Bob, Dylan

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• Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Smart, Matter, Rich

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 101), 1975.

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• The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.

  Samuel Smiles

  Use, Lasts, Virtue

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.2

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• Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

  Rodney Yee

  Beautiful, Teaching, Practice

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• In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices...so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology".

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Voice, Years

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• Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.

  Coventry Patmore

  Book, Reality, Thinking

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

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