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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Feelings, Fruit

  Stephen R. Covey (2008). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall, Powerful, Men

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

  Carlos Santana

  Peace, Powerful, Heart

  "Check Against Delivery". Remarks by Judith Guichon, OBC Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, ltgov.bc.ca. September 21, 2014.

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• Beautiful people do not just happen

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Beauty, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.

  John Spence

  Falling In Love, Powerful, Life Changing

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• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Differences, Tkam

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.44, Infobase Publishing

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• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

  Ralph Marston

  Powerful, Opportunity, Welcome

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I said to George Lucas, "I'd like a purple lightsaber." And he said, "Why?" and I said, "I just want to be able to find myself. I'm the most powerful Jedi in the universe, and I think it would be an interesting thing for me to have a different color lightsaber than anybody else."

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Powerful, Thinking, Interesting

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• I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Beautiful, Powerful, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Powerful, Men, Earth

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• In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

  John Conyers

  Powerful, Government, World

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• America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

  Adam Schiff

  Powerful, Play, America

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• Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Rap, Exercise

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• Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

  Paul Valery

  Powerful, Adjectives, Advertising

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• Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

  Kent Conrad

  Powerful, America, Long

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• The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not the great book or epic play, as once was the case, that will shape that opinion, but those who understand mass media and the techniques of mass persuasion...We must not just believe in what we sell. We must sell what we believe in. And we must pour a vast energy into those causes.

  William Bernbach

  Powerful, Believe, Book

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• The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.

  John Herschel

  Powerful, Book, Civilization

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth - right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Determination, Powerful, War

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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