Most Powerful Quotes - Page 9

• Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Simple, Race, Culture

  Stephanie Dowrick (2006). “Choosing Happiness: Life & Soul Essentials”, p.4, Allen & Unwin

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• The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

  David O. McKay

  Powerful, Ideas, World

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• One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.

  Rowan Williams

  Powerful, Media, Action

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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• Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Powerful, World

  "Rightwinger Sebastián Piñera wins Chile presidency". www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2010.

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• If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

  Tom Odell

  Song, Powerful, People

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• It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.

  Vladimir Makarov

  Powerful, Men, Earth

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• School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Motivational, Wall, Powerful

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• Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

  Pam Allyn

  Children, Powerful, Reading

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• Living matter is the most powerful geological force.

  Vladimir Vernadsky

  Powerful, Matter, Force

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• The most powerful stories are the ones that unite us, not divide us.

  Ami Vitale

  Powerful, Stories, Divides

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• The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.

  Peter Redgrove

  Powerful, Self, People

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• Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.

  Bella Bathurst

  Children, Powerful, Book

  "The secret life of libraries" by Bella Bathurst, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)

  Tony Elumelu

  Powerful, Issues, Acting

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• Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when we respond with hatred. In fact, the opposite occurs: When we hate people who hurt us, we come to resemble what we hate, or worse, and then we suffer all the more. What is evil is our response. We have choices, and love is the most powerful eliminator of all.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hurt, Powerful, Pain

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• The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Powerful, Sacrifice, Men

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• Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Powerful, Drinking

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• Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard work, eyes that have witnessed decades of change, and hearts that have felt a lifetime of emotions. Our whole society benefits when older Americans use their talents and experiences to become involved in the arts as creators, teachers, mentors, volunteers, and audiences.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Art, Powerful

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• I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Powerful, Lefties

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• The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.

  John Ralston Saul

  Powerful, Government, Individuality

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

  Alexander Pope

  Powerful, Learning, Science

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.118

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• The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.

  Thom Hartmann

  Powerful, Compassion, People

  Thom Hartmann (1997). “The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life”

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• One of the more fatuous remarks I've heard in recent days is that 'My Life,' Clinton's autobiography, is too long and, at almost 1,000 pages, short it is not. But this man was for eight years the President of the most powerful country on earth.

  Alastair Campbell

  Country, Powerful, Men

  "The Bill Clinton I knew" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2004.

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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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