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• Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Powerful, World

  "Rightwinger Sebastián Piñera wins Chile presidency". www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2010.

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• If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

  Tom Odell

  Song, Powerful, People

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• Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

  Susan Estrich

  Powerful, Men, Way

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• It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.

  Vladimir Makarov

  Powerful, Men, Earth

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• School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Motivational, Wall, Powerful

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• Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

  Pam Allyn

  Children, Powerful, Reading

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• Living matter is the most powerful geological force.

  Vladimir Vernadsky

  Powerful, Matter, Force

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• America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Country, Powerful, Government

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• The things you’re most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others

  Rick Warren

  Tools, Use, Share

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.251, Zondervan

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• Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful instincts that predominate in life: the instinct to survive and the instinct to multiply. Nourishment and sex give us a great sense of pleasure. Having the wisdom to satisfy both desires—for food and sex—is the art of living well. I truly believe that this wisdom lies within us all.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Art, Sex, Powerful

  Ori Hofmekler (2009). “The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body”, p.182, North Atlantic Books

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• The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us.

  Ami Vitale

  Powerful, Stories, Divides

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• The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.

  Peter Redgrove

  Powerful, Self, People

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• One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Powerful, Men, Order

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• Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.

  Bella Bathurst

  Children, Powerful, Book

  "The secret life of libraries" by Bella Bathurst, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)

  Tony Elumelu

  Powerful, Issues, Acting

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• People tune in to the Fox News Channel because it was founded on the premise that all sides should be presented fairly. This has upset the 'media establishment' but has made Fox the most powerful name in the news. I'm proud that Hannity & Colmes has contributed to this success, an achievement that has been often dissected by liberal media pundits who argue that Sean is more aggressive than I am and therefore dominates the show.

  Alan Colmes

  Powerful, Media, Names

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• Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when we respond with hatred. In fact, the opposite occurs: When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hurt, Powerful, Pain

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• The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Powerful, Sacrifice, Men

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• Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

  Allan Bloom

  Powerful, Looks, Way

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Powerful, Drinking

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• Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard work, eyes that have witnessed decades of change, and hearts that have felt a lifetime of emotions. Our whole society benefits when older Americans use their talents and experiences to become involved in the arts as creators, teachers, mentors, volunteers, and audiences.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Art, Powerful

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• One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes people's consciousness. Through rhythmic repetition of ritual sounds, the body, the brain and the nervous system are energized and transformed. When a group of people play a rhythm for an extended period of time, their brain waves become entrained to the rhythm and they have a shared brain wave state. The longer the drumming goes on, the more powerful the entrainment becomes. It's really the oldest holy communion.

  Layne Redmond

  Powerful, Play, People

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• Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism.
  Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.

  Michael Crichton

  Atheist, Powerful, Choices

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.

  William J. Clinton

  Powerful, People, Focus

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• I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Powerful, Lefties

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