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• In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Book, Knowledge

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• Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

  William P. Young

  Running, Wall, Pain

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• By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they become a necessary part of the system, useful so long as they serve to contain the stirrings and strivings of the oppressed. By making the rules and values of their oppressor their own, they separate themselves from the rest of their group and, temporarily at least, assuage the pain of their stigmatized status.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Pain, Long, Safety

  Lillian B. Rubin (1991). “Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?”, HarperCollins

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• The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

  Francis William Newman

  Men, Instinct, Active

  Francis William Newman (1849). “The Soul, Her Sorrows and Her Aspirations: An Essay Towards the Natural History of the Soul”, p.93

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• I am powerful and I am loving.
  I have much to give to this world.
  I am a person of worth.
  I deserve love.
  I am a capable person.
  My life has meaning.
  My life is unfolding perfectly.
  There is plenty of time.

  Susan Jeffers

  Deserve Love, Giving, World

  Susan Jeffers (1993). “Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace”, Ballantine Books

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• Accepting what others see as your strengths is crucial to your continued growth. Compliments are a gift. They are an opportunity for you and another person to connect in a powerful, positive way. How did you handle the last compliment directed at you? Did you accept it?

  Rhonda Britten

  Opportunity, Growth, Way

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• Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to surface. All of those skills teach us to be inner focused and aware of who we are becoming. That is powerful. That changes lives.

  Rhonda Britten

  Life Changing, Moving, Responsibility

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.139, Penguin

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• The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, He Man, Fear Nothing

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.657, 谷月社

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• Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Winning, Stronger, Allies

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• A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Self, Profound, Perfect

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• The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Feelings, Desire

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• The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Politics, Weapons

  Joseph Stalin (1975). “Works”

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• The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Gratitude, Dog, Men

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• The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Men, Ideas, Tongue

  Lajos Kossuth (1851). “Authentic Life of ... Louis Kossuth ... With a full Report of his Speeches delivered in England ... To which is added his Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.100

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• He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Imagination, Affection, Accustomed

  lord Francis Jeffrey (1879). “Essay on beauty, by Francis, lord Jeffrey; and Essays on the nature and principles of taste, by A. Alison. Repr. of the 5th ed”

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• What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.

  Mary Blakely

  Self Esteem, Son, Motherhood

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• Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Men, Dancing, Energy

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• Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Believe, Skills, Numbers

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.247, Macmillan

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• My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Life Lesson, Self, People

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• Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

  Harold Clurman

  Believe, People, Criticism

  Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.100, Da Capo Press

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• Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order.

  Riane Eisler

  Spiritual, Women, Order

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• All powerful is the rule of fashion.

  Publilius Syrus

  Fashion

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• There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

  Tulsidas

  Evil, Greed, Lust

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• In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

  Pliny the Elder

  Military, Often Is, World

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• Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Expression, People, Atheism

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