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• Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future.

  Carl Sagan

  Notebook, Motivation, Reading

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.

  Cher

  Honesty, World, Difficult

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Judging, May

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.180, Penguin

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• Powerful women are a threat in any society which is why I am such a target.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Target, Powerful Women, Threat

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• The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jesus, Love You, Unconditional Love

  "Madonna: 'I want to be like Gandhi'", www.chinadaily.com.cn. February 17, 2007.

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• ... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own.

  Paulo Coelho

  Technology, Waiting, Stronger

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• Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Encounters, May, Cases

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.190, Princeton University Press

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• Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Passion, Men, Inspire

  "On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.

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• Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Character, Feelings, Balance

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.107, Princeton University Press

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• We are bound together by the most powerful of all ties, our fervent love for freedom and independence, which knows no homeland but the human heart.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Heart, Ties, Independence

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1977). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it's too late.  We are powerful enough that we can manifest anything into our lives.  To use this power with great care and love is the secret to living a happy life.

  Margaret Cho

  Happy Life, Love Is, Secret

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• No matter how famous the victim, no matter how powerful the advocates, it simply isn't always possible to control the conduct of other people.

  Gavin de Becker

  People, Matter, Victim

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• The World's most powerful army is the Army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Fighting, Army

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• Intuition is a powerful tool that can heal the painful split we all feel between our earthly, mundane selves and our divine, eternal selves. When we realize that our spiritual knowledge is in us right now, and always has been, we become filled with light, light-hearted, and enlightened.

  Penney Peirce

  Spiritual, Light, Self

  Penney Peirce (2009). “The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

  Jose Bernardo

  Life, Art, Secret

  Jose Raul Bernardo (1997). “The Secret of the Bulls”, Simon & Schuster

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• Believe me, there is no more powerful means to obtain God's grace than to employ the intercessions of the Holy Virgin.

  Philip Neri

  Believe, Mean, Grace

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• As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.

  George H. W. Bush

  Years, Grace, Forgiving

  "H.W. Bush mistakenly announces death of Nelson Mandela" by Natalie DiBlasio, www.usatoday.com. September 1, 2013.

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• We've all got our own brand of problems. You can be pitiful or powerful. Take your pick.

  Joyce Meyer

  Problem, Brands, Picks

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• If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  House, Needs, Attention

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “The Last American Man”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Christian, Hate, Organization

  George Amos Dorsey (1931). “Man's own show: civilization”

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• Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Moving, Cutting

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• What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.

  Richard Lindzen

  Special, World, Toxins

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• As we move toward the millennium, the year 2000, the most powerful nations are not those that have nuclear bombs, but those that control the media. That's where the battle is being fought; that is how you control people's minds.

  Spike Lee

  Moving, Media, Years

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• As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.

  George Carlin

  Needs, May, Claims

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• People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, People, Scared

  "Apartheid in the Holy Land" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

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