Most Powerful Quotes - Page 4

• The most powerful music is music with purpose.

  Tom Morello

  Funny, Inspiring, Powerful

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

  Paul Valery

  Powerful, Adjectives, Advertising

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions.

  John P. Kotter

  Powerful, Information, Action

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.115, Harvard Business Review Press

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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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• 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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• The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

  Bev Perdue

  Powerful, Vote

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• Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

  Marvin Olasky

  Powerful, Philosophy, Animal

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• It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Powerful, War, Civilization

  "The Clash of Civilizations?". Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.com. Summer 1993.

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• Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

  John Philip Sousa

  Beauty, Powerful, Opera

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• I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Powerful, Believe, Drug

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

  Seth Lloyd

  Powerful, Computer, Wanted

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• It's not the most powerful animal that survives. It's the most efficient.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Powerful, Animal, Mma

  FaceBook post by Georges St-Pierre from May 25, 2011

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• We, as pop stars, are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Art, Stars, Powerful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can change the cause, change the effect, or choose the most powerful option become the cause!

  Bill Crawford

  Powerful, Negative, Three

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• The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

  Bill Crawford

  Powerful, Opportunity, Giving

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• The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

  Galen

  Powerful, Writing, Fate

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• I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

  Kalle Lasn

  Powerful, Believe, Aesthetics

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• On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

  Francois Arago

  Powerful, Eye, Science

  François Arago, William Henry Smyth, Baden Powell, Robert Grant, Sir William Fairbairn (1859). “Biographies of distinguished scientific men”, p.347

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• The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

  Carl Bernstein

  Powerful, Responsibility, Reality

  "The best obtainable version of the truth". Carl Bernstein's talk at the annual convention of the Radio and Television News Directors Association, September 26, 1998.

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• You are the most powerful force in your life.

  Brian Wong

  Powerful, Force

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