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• Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a-a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a... it, uh, it has no-no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible. It should be, um, smelly.

  Joss Whedon

  Memories, Powerful, Flower

  "Fictional character: Rupert Giles". Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I, Robot... You, Jane), www.imdb.com. April 28, 1997.

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• True love can break the most powerful curse

  Jodi Picoult

  Powerful, Break, Curse

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• You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Beautiful, Powerful, Believe

  Cecelia Ahern (2006). “If You Could See Me Now”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Powerful, Father

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• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• She raised her eyebrows in a look that she hoped conveyed how much she was all right with him leaving her. After all, he was a prince. The most powerful men and women on Earth had summoned him. She understood. And yet he was still here, with her. "I'm fine," she said. "Go away.

  Marissa Meyer

  Powerful, Men, Eyebrows

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• Setrakus is more or less invincible. Only Pittacus Lore, the most powerful of all the Lorien Elders, would have been able to defeat him.

  Pittacus Lore

  Powerful, Able, Defeat

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• Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true.

  Rick Riordan

  Powerful, Guy, Demigods

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• Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Running, Powerful, War

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.38, Coventry House Publishing

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• Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspiring, Moving On, Patience

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• you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

  William Joyce

  Dream, Powerful, Needs

  William Joyce, Laura Geringer (2011). “Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

  Donald Miller

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  "Blue Like Jazz". Book by Donald Miller, 2003.

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• Piper, you’re the strongest, most powerful beauty queen I’ve ever met. You can trust yourself. For what it’s worth, you can trust me too.

  Rick Riordan

  Queens, Powerful, Trust Me

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• Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

  Hannah Arendt

  Love, Peace, Powerful

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.242, University of Chicago Press

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• Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.

  Philippa Gregory

  Powerful, Heart, Eye

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you want to know the closest thing to feeling the most powerful you can feel ? Flying alone at night.Risky.Nothing but you and the wind soaring way above everything , Slicing through the air like a Sword. Up and up until you feel like you can grab a star and hold it to your chest like a burning, Spiky thing

  James Patterson

  Stars, Powerful, Night

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.55, Random House

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• I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Powerful, Believe, Odds

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Powerful, Mean, Gun

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• I value my own independence so highly that I can fancy no degradation greater than that of having another man perpetually directing and advising and lecturing me, or even planning too closely in any way about my actions. He might be the wisest of men, or the most powerful - I should equally rebel and resent his interference.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Powerful, Men, Independence

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.614, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• Words were one of the most powerful forces known— or unknown— to man. The Most High had created this world with His words. And humans, who had been fashioned in His image, could direct the entire course of their lives with their words, their mouths as the rudder on a ship, as the bridle on a horse. They produced with their words. They destroyed with their words.

  Gena Showalter

  Horse, Powerful, Men

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• I swear love is the most powerful emotion thats ever existed. It owns people, devours them, tears them open and bleeds them out from the inside, making them defenseless to everything. Hate is the same way. Hate takes your levelheadedness and even your sanity away from you.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Powerful, Hate, Love Is

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• I brought out the most powerful tool I had in my arsenal. "If you resist," I said into Reyes's ear, "I'll be forced to Taser you." He looked at what I had in my hand. "That's a phone." "I have an app. You'll probably experience nerve damage. Slight memory loss.

  Darynda Jones

  Memories, Powerful, Loss

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• Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Book, July

  "The Full Text: Malala Yousafzai Delivers Defiant Riposte to Taliban Militants With Speech to the Un General Assembly". www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world.
  It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Jobs, Powerful

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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