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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever i...

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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes...

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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an...

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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into word...

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One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power...

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History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or h...

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The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of h...

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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to t...

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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind ...

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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so pow...

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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely...

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We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest ...

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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not pr...

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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your po...

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You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely fre...

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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be intro...

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There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and sk...

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I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about ...

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Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They jus...

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Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts...

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The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of right...

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In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth...

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But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and suppo...

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But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his w...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wi...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, th...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more a...

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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powe...

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The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the...

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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. Ther...

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But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?...

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To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is trem...

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Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly al...

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I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words o...

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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the fo...

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Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of the...

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We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: ...

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The Master doesn't try to be powerful;thus he is truly powerful.The ordinary man keeps reaching for ...

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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old mai...

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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upwar...

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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroy...

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When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more ...

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Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't," Pers...

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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and t...

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantag...

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To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...

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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you c...

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Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people t...

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Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, tou...

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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate i...

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Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypi...

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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society...

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Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire...

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Let's be very clear: Strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to ma...

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I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 1...

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Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to fur...

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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we c...

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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of his...

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Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will ...

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It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in tryin...

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If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engul...

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We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised ec...

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I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religio...

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

That's all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. 'Cos women are powerful, power...

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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

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Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

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The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was ...

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Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really p...

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The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true socia...

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The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much l...

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It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it'...

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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes yo...

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I have never known Frances to complain once of my Church responsibilities. I have been gone many day...

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For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

The excluded when on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true leper are only the illustration...

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