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• Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Reacting, Contemplating, Reflecting

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• Many media commercials encourage us to believe that if we buy a certain product, we can be physically appealing, or popular, or successful. According to the commercial message, it may be easy to make friends and influence people if we simply do what we're told to do. It would be wonderful if that were true, but unfortunately life does not seem to work that way. What is inside of us can be much more important and influential than what is outside.

  John Templeton

  Believe, Successful, Media

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• It is so inspiring when you come across a woman who is very strong and dedicated and is amazing at what they do. That's how I feel about Meryl Streep. You watch her, and you can't help but notice all of that about her. She's so influential.

  Agyness Deyn

  Strong, Watches, Helping

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

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• Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Attitude, Home, Price Tag

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Home, where life makes up its mind”

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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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• Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Writing, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

  David Remnick

  Trying, Needs, Journalist

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Media, Online

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

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• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Hate, Light

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special favors to certain politically influential groups that are subject to its regulation. This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of organized crime: for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide 'protection' from the FDA itself.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Mean, Dark, Keys

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• I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

  Andy Partridge

  Father, Guitar, Play

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• We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be very helpful, and I would like to lobby in their behalf.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mother, Equal Pay, Day Care

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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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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• But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.

  Tobias Wolff

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

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• There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential clarinettists were household names. This was the swing era.

  Scott Yanow

  Teenager, Swings, Names

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• If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this. The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should.

  Jim Moran

  Strong, War, Thinking

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• My routine is really based around my kids, and I try not to hold myself to a schedule, because it is always changing. What has been the most influential thing to help me keep my center is to set priorities and stick to them.

  Trista Sutter

  Kids, Priorities, Trying

  "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They're one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

  Steve Albini

  Suicide, Unique, Views

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• One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Leader, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

  Philip Kitcher

  Thinking, Generations, Literature

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.

  Peter Costello

  Party, Influential Person, West

  Source: www.petercostello.com.au

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• For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

  George Orwell

  Book, Writing, Giving

  George Orwell (1987). “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, Harvill Secker

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• The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life Lesson, Book, Writing

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)”, p.25, Full Moon Publications

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• The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in the State administrations as are capable of preferring their own emolument and advancement to the public weal.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ambition, Character, Federalism

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.290, Cambridge University Press

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