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• To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Powerful, Healing

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.100, Random House

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• Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

  Hannah Arendt

  Powerful, Thinking, Affair

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

  Novalis

  Powerful, Savages, Rivals

  "Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Powerful, Inspiration, Desire

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments. And what is it doing with this power? It is using free trade, the most powerful weapon at its disposal, to tighten its grip on the globe.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Business, Government

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Organization, World

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• We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

  Robert Kennedy

  Powerful, Understanding, Mind

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• A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.

  Sissy Spacek

  Powerful, Bait, Hollywood

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• Throughout the 1980s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough about how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Powerful, Ethos, Community

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• Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed. Naked reality would scarcely keep the world in motion.

  William Benton Clulow

  Powerful, Ambition, Reality

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.253

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• Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

  J. G. Holland

  Powerful, Fiction, Littles

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• True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.

  Lynda Obst

  Powerful, Order, True Power

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• Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Believe, Victory

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that don't matter. Stopping meditation is one of the easiest, quickest and most powerful forms of meditation. It is virtually effortless and its power relative to the effort is remarkable.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Powerful, People, Effort

  Source: www.trulyalive.net

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• USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way back to the Stone Age.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Powerful, Usa

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• I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

  Juanes

  Powerful, Believe, Love Is

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• the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.

  Maria Konnikova

  Powerful, Mind, Doe

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.264, Penguin

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• Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

  Patrick Dixon

  Powerful, Civilization, World

  Patrick Dixon (2011). “Futurewise”, p.127, Profile Books

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• All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future.

  Patrick Dixon

  Powerful, Speech, Made

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Truth, Powerful, Fiction

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• Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Love, Powerful, Memories

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• And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world.

  Eula Biss

  Powerful, Mean, Intelligent

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• One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe-the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.

  James Hollis

  Jobs, Powerful, Book

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.41, Inner City Books

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• There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.

  Sharon Anthony Bower

  Powerful, Skills, Silence

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• For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth and slaves, both of which, by relieving some classes from the perpetual struggle for a bare subsistence, afford them an opportunity of devoting themselves to that disinterested pursuit of knowledge which is the noblest and most powerful instrument to ameliorate the lot of man.

  James G. Frazer

  Powerful, Struggle, Men

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