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• Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Motivation, Powerful, People

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• Love is the most powerful energy there is.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Powerful, Love Is, Energy

  "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

  Harvey Mackay

  Powerful, Two, Letters

  "Harvey Mackay Book Interview : The Mackay MBA of selling in the real world". Interview with David Dalka, www.daviddalka.com. November 29, 2011.

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• It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

  Jim James

  Beach, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.

  Father Damien

  Powerful, Heart, Mean

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• You educate people, especially young people, by stirring their passions, so you take every opportunity to grab the imagination of your employees, you get them to feel they are doing something important, that they are not a lone voice, that they are the most powerful and potent people on the planet.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Passion, Opportunity

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• What is it that is most beautiful? - The Universe; for it is the work of God. What is most powerful? - Necessity; because it triumphs over all things. What is most difficult? - To know one's self. What is most easy? - To give advice. What method must we take to lead a good life? - To do nothing we would condemn in others. What is necessary to happiness? - A sound body and a contented mind.

  Thales

  Beautiful, Powerful, Good Life

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• Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign that says, WELCOME TO DES MOINES. THIS IS WHAT DEATH IS LIKE. There isn't really. I just made that up. But the place does get a grip on you.

  Bill Bryson

  Powerful, Men, Doe

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.3, VNR AG

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• Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Love Is, World

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.150, Beacon Press

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• I believe we should work and want to have the most powerful military, but hope we never have to use it. I strongly believe the military should know they are 100 percent supported by the commander in chief.

  Phil Roe

  Powerful, Military, Believe

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• For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

  Nicole Krauss

  Mother, Powerful, Regret

  "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.

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• Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Puppets, Strings

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• The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.

  Russell Green

  Powerful, Climate, World

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• You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself

  Sally Potter

  Powerful, Struggle, Divorce

  "TIFF: Interview with Sally Potter – Writer and Director of Ginger and Rosa". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Blessed, Men

  John Quincy Adams (1965). “John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches”, Chicago, Quadrangle Books

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• I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

  David Crosby

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think we too are the people who, on the one hand, want to listen to Jesus, but on the other hand, at times, like to find a stick to beat others with, to condemn others. And Jesus has this message for us: mercy. I think - and I say it with humility - that this is the Lord's most powerful message: mercy.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Powerful, Humility

  Holy Mass In The Parish of St. Anna in the Vatican, w2.vatican.va. March 17, 2013.

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• Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

  Nancy Duarte

  Powerful, Communication, Mean

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• Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

  Bil Keane

  Powerful, Yesterday And Today, Yesterday Is History

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• Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.

  Judith Krug

  Powerful, People, Community

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• Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

  Roelof Botha

  Powerful, Keys, Quality

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Powerful, Tyrants, Oil

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• The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.

  Sendhil Mullainathan

  Powerful, Tools, Ability

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• Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.

  Will Ferrell

  Powerful, Grief, Aphrodisiac

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• Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Powerful, Heart, Light

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