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• One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.

  John Carpenter

  Falling In Love, Hero, Thinking

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• The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

  Lester B. Pearson

  One Day, Groups, Individual

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  Dan Brown

  Engineering, Body, Ethics

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• When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy.

  Donald Evans

  Thinking, America, Honest

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• One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

  Robert Morgan

  Choices, Unexpected, Sometimes

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• I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

  Andrew Thomas

  Law, Community, Promise

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• Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Selfish, Fall, Greatness

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• Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

  George Leonard

  Inspirational, Humanity, Force

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.254, North Atlantic Books

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• There is nothing as powerful as a made up mind. Do not give yourself another excuse to put off making up your mind. You know in your heart of hearts that once you do that you have got to act.
  You owe it to the world, your family and most importantly, to yourself to live a life of no regrets. Stop worrying about what other people will think, say, or do. You only have one life. LIVE IT now. You have GREATNESS within you!!

  Les Brown

  Regret, Heart, Greatness

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• Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable - as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.

  Kenneth Clark

  Mother, Art, Museums

  "Civilisation" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. 1), 1969.

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• You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

  Les Brown

  Purpose, Knows

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• What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

  Abigail Adams

  Details, Kingdoms, Weak

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.197

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• To consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense it is undemocratic, for it assumes that some people really know better in a way that must seem arbitrary to most. In a large sense it is certainly democratic, in that it makes the great man serve as a man.

  Paul Goodman

  Men, People, Soul

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 153-154), 1956.

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• Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

  Dan Brown

  Truth, People, Gravity

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• When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!

  John Gay

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  John Gay, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: In Three Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions:”

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• As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Hypocrite, Atheism

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• Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

  Voltaire

  Garden, Atheism, One Day

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• The anger I felt when the ACLU tried to disenfranchise me because my religious stayed with me. These are dangerous people who make dangerous arguments. Some powerful members of the cultural elites in our country are so paralyzed by the fear that theistic notions might reassert themselves in the official activities of government that they will go to Gestapo lengths to inhibit such expression.

  Henry Hyde

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.

  Jim Carroll

  Jobs, Children, Government

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• We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

  John Piper

  Blessed, Names, Shining

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• He [God] made us free, and He respects that. It is two different spheres of causality. Interdependent, though. It is not two boxes looking at one another without any kind of direct connections. There are very direct connections. That's why the question of "how are we free if God is omnipotent?" is a real, constant question. Ultimately, God is all powerful, and yet we are free.

  Francis George

  Real, Two, Causality

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• Fears are all psychological. Being afraid of death, loss of a loved one and disfigurement are all powered by your mind, and that's very powerful stuff.

  John Carpenter

  Loss, Mind, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up with the word "volunteer" as a very powerful word in my family. I was inspired by my mother and by how selfless our family was toward others who didn't have enough.

  Eva Longoria

  Mother, Volunteer, Selfless

  "More Than a Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria Talks Activism". Interview with Avital Andrews, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.

  Esther Perel

  Loss, Years, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Wonder Woman presents a challenge because she needs to be drop-dead gorgeous, but also very, very strong both physically and emotionally. She's a powerful presence and we had to find that balance between athleticism and glamour.

  Bruce Timm

  Strong, Challenges, Balance

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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