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• I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Believe, Museums, Pieces

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

  Common

  Hip Hop, Elements, Hips

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think one of the things I always loved about the comics was this idea that this character, when he goes berserk, that white, blind rage makes him incredibly powerful, but it's also a great flaw. It's almost like he loses consciousness of what he's doing. During that he can do great damage.

  Hugh Jackman

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  "Hugh Jackman Talks Finally Putting “the Real Wolverine” on Screen, the Comics Influence, and More on the Set of THE WOLVERINE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Motivation, Love Is

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.68, Penguin

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• I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity."

  Hamza Yusuf

  Falling In Love, Love You, Winning

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

  John Amos Comenius

  Girl, Children, School

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• What you believe is powerful. If you can change what you believe, you can change your life!

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Changing Your Life, Ifs

  Joseph Prince (2014). “The Power of Right Believing: 7 Keys to Freedom from Fear, Guilt and Addiction”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Superficial Things, Technique, Would Be

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• The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

  Karl Popper

  People, Good People, Damage

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• The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

  Serj Tankian

  Ideas

  "SERJ TANKIAN Answers 'Frequently Asked Questions'". Interview, www.blabbermouth.net. November 15, 2007.

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• One of the greatest things I've ever seen happen was the morning I opened the newspaper and it said that some very powerful government officials had decided to change the name of “french fries” to “freedoom fries” and “french toast” to “freedom toast”. It was impressive. I wanted to write a letter to them just to thank them, just for proving globally that they were absolute imbeciles.

  Johnny Depp

  Morning, Writing, Government

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

  Max Lucado

  Simple, Life Is, Source

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

  Helen Mirren

  Beautiful, Interesting, Being Beautiful

  "Helen Mirren: ageism in Hollywood is 'outrageous'" by Benjamin Lee, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2015.

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• A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

  Roger Zelazny

  Reading, Imagination, Excellence

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• Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down.

  Rick Riordan

  Egypt, Color, Voice

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• The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Strong, War, Two

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• United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
  split asunder.

  John F. Kennedy

  Odds, Challenges, Splits

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.

  Jim MacLaren

  Soul, Needs, Exciting

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• God, please use me" is the most powerful affirmation we can say for an abundant career. It is the miracle-worker's prayer. Everybody wants a great job. Accept that it's already been given you. The fact that you're alive means a function has been assigned to you: open your heart to everyone and everything. That way you're a vessel of God. Don't worry about what to say or what to do. He'll let you know.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Prayer, Mean

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

  Clayton Christensen

  Ideas, Want, Disruption

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• These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world where “writing infects the landscape” and there are “more letters than leaves” - The kind of match one hopes for where both the translator and the poet are in luck; new poems which don't leak and yet old poems in which the original passion shines.

  Jorie Graham

  Passion, Writing, Silence

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• I am powerful and I am loving.
  I have much to give to this world.
  I am a person of worth.
  I deserve love.
  I am a capable person.
  My life has meaning.
  My life is unfolding perfectly.
  There is plenty of time.

  Susan Jeffers

  Deserve Love, Giving, World

  Susan Jeffers (1993). “Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace”, Ballantine Books

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• I think one of the most important American films is "Jackie Brown", which is such a humble depiction of humble characters but so powerful. The film was pure depiction of the American poverty of the 90s.

  Arnaud Desplechin

  Humble, Character, Thinking

  "INTERVIEW: Soul Searching, or Searching for a Soul; Enigmatic Desplechin Returns with 'Esther Kahn'" by Andrea Meyer, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2002.

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• The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cheer, Men, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.238, Harvard University Press

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• An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stupid, Race, Pseudo

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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