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• To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Superficial Things, Technique, Would Be

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• Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down.

  Rick Riordan

  Egypt, Color, Voice

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• The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

  Serj Tankian

  Ideas

  "SERJ TANKIAN Answers 'Frequently Asked Questions'". Interview, www.blabbermouth.net. November 15, 2007.

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• United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
  split asunder.

  John F. Kennedy

  Odds, Challenges, Splits

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.

  Jim MacLaren

  Soul, Needs, Exciting

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• A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

  Roger Zelazny

  Reading, Imagination, Excellence

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• In mockery I have set
  A powerful emblem up,
  And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
  In mockery of a time
  Half dead at the top.

  William Butler Yeats

  Symbolism, Towers, Half

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it.

  Alan Cohen

  Prayer, Home, Self

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• God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Prayer, Mean

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

  Clayton Christensen

  Ideas, Want, Disruption

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• There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems.

  David St. John

  Moving, Reflection, Rocks

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• These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world where “writing infects the landscape” and there are “more letters than leaves” - The kind of match one hopes for where both the translator and the poet are in luck; new poems which don't leak and yet old poems in which the original passion shines.

  Jorie Graham

  Passion, Writing, Silence

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• ...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.

  Ani DiFranco

  Hatred, Important, Stones

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• What makes American Elf so good is that it's incredibly personal and it runs the full spectrum from super-sickening sweetness to gut-wrenching terror and sorrow. It's a funny and powerful window into a real person's mind.

  Tony Millionaire

  Running, Real, Mind

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• Ten decimal places of π are sufficient to give the circumference of the earth to a fraction of an inch, and thirty decimal places would give the circumference of the visible universe to a quantity imperceptible to the most powerful microscope.

  Simon Newcomb

  Giving, Earth, Microscopes

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• I think one of the most important American films is "Jackie Brown", which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the 90s.

  Arnaud Desplechin

  Humble, Character, Thinking

  "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.

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• The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cheer, Men, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.238, Harvard University Press

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• Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

  Mason Cooley

  Merit, Undefined, Superiority

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• An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stupid, Race, Pseudo

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Happy, Fear, Creativity

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• Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.

  Judith Ellen Foster

  Sweet, Home, Civilization

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• Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Law, United States, Mediums

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• The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If powerful oil trusts no longer despoil and humiliate our country it is not because these predators have become human, but because we have won a hard-fought battle which has been going on since the beginning of the century.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Men, Oil

  "The Shah's Story". Book by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, p. 59, 1980.

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• For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Usa, Organization

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 169, 1991.

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• [Written in 1901:] Nothing has been so deplorable for countries as centralization. I am afraid when I see Germany grow so powerful, and centralizing in Berlin; it is the beginning of the end!

  Elisabeth of Wied

  Country, Berlin, Germany

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