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• Hardly anyone ever leaves. This is because Des Moines is the most powerful hypnotic known to man. Outside town there is a big sign that says, WELCOME TO DES MOINES. THIS IS WHAT DEATH IS LIKE. There isn't really. I just made that up. But the place does get a grip on you.

  Bill Bryson

  Powerful, Men, Doe

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.3, VNR AG

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• Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Love Is, World

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.150, Beacon Press

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• For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

  Nicole Krauss

  Mother, Powerful, Regret

  "Nicole Krauss’ Plot Thickens". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2010.

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• You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself

  Sally Potter

  Powerful, Struggle, Divorce

  "TIFF: Interview with Sally Potter – Writer and Director of Ginger and Rosa". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. September 13, 2012.

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• While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Blessed, Men

  John Quincy Adams (1965). “John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches”, Chicago, Quadrangle Books

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• The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces.

  Howard Staunton

  Queens, Powerful, Force

  Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.4

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• Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Powerful, Love Is, Fiction

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• Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating

  John Wooden

  Powerful, Role Models, Roles

  John Wooden (2011). “Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)”, p.5, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

  Bil Keane

  Powerful, Yesterday And Today, Yesterday Is History

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• The United States is sending its most powerful drone to Libya. That’s a long trip for Joe Biden.

  Jay Leno

  Powerful, Long, United States

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• The Senate has passed a new bill that requires TV stations to lower the volume level on commercials. This is great, a hundred of the most powerful people in the nation have managed to do the same thing my remote does.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Powerful, People, Doe

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• The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Powerful, Way

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Aug 08, 2011

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• The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Powerful, Struggle

  "Listening to shame". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument in favor of the gospel that can be produced.

  Ellen G. White

  Christian, Powerful, Favors

  "Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles". Book IV of IV,

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• The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Powerful, Forever, Connections

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• Dried oregano has thirty times the brain-healing antioxidant power of raw blueberries, forty-six times more than apples, and fifty-six times as much as strawberries, making it one of the most powerful brain cell protectors on the planet.

  Daniel Amen

  Powerful, Healing, Cells

  Daniel G. Amen (2012). “Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to look, feel and think younger every day”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.

  Lorne Michaels

  Powerful, Class, Play

  "Marc Maron Finally Asked Lorne Michaels About His Infamous SNL Audition in an Instant-Classic Episode of 'WTF'" by Jesse David Fox, www.vulture.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

  Jose Rizal

  Powerful, World, Divinity

  "The Philippines: a Century Hence". Book by José Rizal, archive.org. 1912.

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• I have a vision for a world where business is the most powerful force for positive change.

  Lucas Donat

  Powerful, Vision, World

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• When I'm the speaker, I know that special moment [just before speaking] is the only time I will have the entire audience's full attention. Unless an alien spaceship crash-lands on stage midway through the talk, the silence before I begin is the most powerful moment I have. What defines how well I'll do starts with how I use the power of that moment.

  Scott Berkun

  Powerful, Land, Silence

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• If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Children, Powerful, School

  "Zimbabwe tycoon says he refused massive bribe demands in building his African business empire". www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

  Al Gore

  Powerful, Enemy, Reason

  Al Gore (2012). “The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making”, p.23, A&C Black

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• The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

  Pat Conroy

  Powerful, Stories, Singularity

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• Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason. Then I think that the next most powerful reason is the wish for safety.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.187, Psychology Press

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• Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

  Bob Kerrey

  Powerful, Kindness, Agents

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