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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

  Passion, Opportunity, Voice

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• Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Any absorbing passion has the effect to deliver from the little coils and cares of every day: 'tis the heat which sets our human atoms spinning, overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds, and first addresses in society, and gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue, when once it is begun.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spring, Passion, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.419

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• This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.

  Isaac Newton

  Beautiful, Wise, Stars

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.1023, Delphi Classics

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• A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.

  Hal Abelson

  Mean, Ideas, Tasks

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• In terms of addiction, there is nothing more powerful than men's toys.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Men, Addiction, Toys

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• Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.

  Robert Ringer

  Thinking, Earth, Action

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• You are only as powerful as your mentors.

  Robert G. Allen

  Mentor

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• The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.

  Simon Jenkins

  Jobs, Media, Embarrassment

  "US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2010.

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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, Good Life, Self

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• Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.

  Michael Gove

  Passion, Emotional, Past

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• The guitar, by its very nature, the nature of its sound, by the soft nuance of its powerful and ancient voice, by the magic of the tone, goes directly to the part of oneself where love is felt. When I hear the sound of the guitar, it goes to some part inside of me that opens the door that holds feelings of love and everything that is beautiful which lives inside of me.

  Pepe Romero

  Beautiful, Love Is, Guitar

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• Every now and then, a technology comes along that is so profound, so powerful, so universal, that its impact will change everything. It will transform every institution in the world. It will create winners and losers, will change the way we do business, the way we teach our children, communicate and interact as individuals.

  Lou Gerstner

  Children, Technology, Impact

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• We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.

  T. J. Jackson Lears

  Light, Effort, Historical

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• The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Order, Ideas, Liberty

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• Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.

  John Dewey

  Class, Desire, Facts

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.38, SIU Press

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• I would like to be myself in life - my real self. My ego, though, is powerful and not necessarily working in my best interest all the time. Even when climbing I can't escape the clutches of my ego. The reason why I started climbing was because I could be free from myself.

  Chris Sharma

  Real, Climbing, Self

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• The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Balance, World

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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

  Men, Doe, Towns

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

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• A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Ghetto, Class

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• A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

  Mark Twain

  Light, Agents, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.140, 谷月社

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, World, Force

  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

  Military, Believe, Want

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• Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Ascent, Noise, Path

  Joseph Goebbels (1987). “Michael: a novel”, Amok Pr

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• Dreams are more powerful than facts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Dream, Laughter

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

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