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• Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

  Takashi Murakami

  Minorities, Figures, Bigs

  "Murakami's Monster Magic". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 5, 2013.

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• The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Science

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• Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Attitude, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 14, 2013

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• America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

  Dennis Prager

  Civilization, America, Political

  "The More Given, the Less Earned". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 21, 2009.

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• There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

  William Bennett

  Life, Children, Power

  William J. Bennett (1993). “Book of Virtues”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• If you let some time go by before considering work that you have done, you move toward a more objective position in judging it. The pleasure of the subjective, physical experience in the world is a more distant memory and less influential.

  Henry Wessel, Jr.

  Photography, Memories, Moving

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• Christian Zionism has become the most powerful and destructive force at work in America today. Influential in shaping Western foreign policy on the Middle East, they are not only inciting hatred between Jews and Muslims but are also the greatest roadblock to lasting peace in the Middle East.

  Stephen Sizer

  Christian, Powerful, America

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• Your country, my country - each is a better and stronger and more influential nation because each can rely upon every resource of the other in days of crisis. Beyond this, each can work and grow and prosper with the other through years of quiet peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Years, Rely Upon

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• It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

  George W. Bush

  Historical, Democracy, World

  National Endowment for Democracy Address on the Middle East, delivered 6 November 2003, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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• If Google doesn't know the answer, then it's not a question

  Bill Murray

  Google, Answers, Social Media

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• If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Perseverance, Determination, Kings

  "When King made history at UChicago" by Susie Allen and Michael Drapa, www.uchicago.edu. January 9, 2012.

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• So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [...] Learning to live is learning to let go.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Inspiring, Letting Go, Order

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the Rockefeller world empire. It was Kissinger, along with David Rockefeller, who was decisive in the disastrous decision of President Carter to admit the recently toppled Shah of Iran, old friend and ally of the Rockefellers into the United States, a decision that led directly to the Iranian hostage crisis and to Carter's downfall.

  Murray Rothbard

  Play, Hostage Crisis, Media

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• With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone.

  Erik Qualman

  Hero, Technology, Creating

  Erik Qualman (2012). “Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence”, p.2, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t enough, Michael then went and single-handedly revolutionized music videos. It’s amazing that today, some twenty-five years later, everyone who makes a pop music video still feels obligated to include a 'group dance' sequence like the one Michael pioneered in 'Beat It'. That’s how influential and ahead of the times he was.

  Marcus Miller

  Years, Twenties, Groups

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• It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture. Any list of the most influential production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names.

  Michael Medved

  Reality, Names, Trying

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• Christ remains the most influential figure in history. Any list of world-transforming individuals would no doubt include Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad, however occupy totally different places in Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam than Christ occupies in Christianity. Moses, Buddha, and Muhammad never professed to perform miracles; indeed they never claimed to be anything more than men. They viewed themselves simply as God's messengers. Christ is the only person in history who has defined a whole religion around his person.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Jesus, Buddhism, Men

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• It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

  Frances Wright

  Power, Race, Important

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.24

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• My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Father, Artist

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• The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

  Eliot Engel

  Country, Numbers, Needs

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• Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Movement, World

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• That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.

  Roger Waters

  Thinking, Rock And Roll, Sgt Pepper

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• At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Careers, People, Helping

  "Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time". Book by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz, 2005.

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• Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Way

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