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• Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

  William C. Bryant

  Art, Imagination, Poetry Is

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• The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.

  John Robbins

  Powerful, Philosophy, Hands

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• The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Powerful, Technique, Tools

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• After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Powerful, Campaigns

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• In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Health, Buddhism

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• With the most powerful binoculars, I cannot see Alaska.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Powerful, Alaska, Binoculars

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• Kundalini Yoga is the yoga of power. Without wisdom, a powerful person does not become more powerful. Their power will turn back on them and eventually destroy them. So those who are truly wise become most powerful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Powerful, Yoga

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

  Brené Brown

  Powerful, Not Good Enough, Emotion

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• We are altering the most basic forces of the planet's surface - the content of the sunlight, the temperature and aridity - and that brings out the most powerful questions about who is in charge. If you wanted to give a name to this theological problem, I think you could say that we are engaged in decreation.

  Bill McKibben

  Powerful, Thinking, Names

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• What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society. And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.

  Bill Drayton

  Powerful, Thinking, Rights

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• There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hate, Two, Giving

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• When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Law, Justice

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.113, Three Rivers Press

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• The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Giving, Environmental

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• Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed.

  Mike Murdock

  Powerful, Earth, Truth Is

  Mike Murdock (1994). “The One-Minute Businessman's Devotional”, Honor Books

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• The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Powerful, History, Enemy

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• In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

  Andre Malraux

  Powerful, Organization, Effort

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• The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.
  The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda
  of an entire generation that is to come.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, Vision, World

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• Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Powerful

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1924). “The Reality of Prayer”, p.14, CCEL

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• Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make Satan rejoice.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Powerful, Trying, Tools

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua ; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Powerful, Fighting, Europe

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Patrick Riley (1988). “Leibniz: Political Writings”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• Questions about political theatre always overlook America's most powerful and effective political theatre, which is always thriving: the American musical. The politics is conservative but, to my mind, effective and insidious.

  John Lahr

  Powerful, America, Political

  "Questions for John Lahr" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.

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• Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.

  Howard Zinn

  Powerful, Pride, Thinking

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.289, Seven Stories Press

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• Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool.

  Linda Stone

  Powerful, Exercise, Technology

  "Fine Dining with Mobile Devices" by Linda Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2008.

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• At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing--a longing not just of brain, belly, or loins but finally of the heart.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Powerful, Heart, Addiction

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• The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Kings, Powerful, Mean

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.225, Harvard University Press

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