Powerful Quotes - Page 20

• Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Long, Progress

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Empathy, Satisfaction

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• The most powerful thing we have is our psyche. And to use our minds, we must be clear, vulnerable and open, which will take us to places we didn't even know were there or couldn't imagine ourselves going.

  Gary Busey

  Mind, Use, Vulnerable

  Interview with Chet Cooper and Lia Martirosyan, abilitymagazine.com. April 2014.

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• Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

  Barack Obama

  Heart, Voice, Deeds

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Issues, Feel Good

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.

  Barack Obama

  Kings, Violence, Moral

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.

  Barack Obama

  Blow, Wind, Progress

  Barack Obama's remarks prior to departure from Accra, Ghana, July 11, 2009.

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• Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

  Philip Schultz

  Wanted

  Source: poems.com

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• Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Unity, Tonight

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

  Jordan Peele

  Real, Issues, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Challenges, World, Pay

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Feelings, Stressed

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• This country has not been made by politicians, kings or governments. It has been made by farmers, labourers, our mothers and sisters and youth.

  Narendra Modi

  Mother, Country, Kings

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• The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.

  E. O. Wilson

  Children, War, Winning

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

  Philip Schultz

  Art, Struggle, Work Out

  Source: poems.com

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• Naturally, we will continue to offer very powerful vehicles in the future. Nevertheless, no other manufacturer has reduced the CO2 emissions of its fleet as substantially as the BMW Group.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Bmw, Groups, Vehicle

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Average, Bmw, Fuel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy. I could talk about other novels, but for me it's Dostoevsky. His sheer size and grandeur, his sacramentality, his ecclesiology, and his sense of the human predicament are as powerful as it gets. Can't imagine not reading the Russians.

  Gordon T. Smith

  Brother, Reading, Punishment

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• I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Thinking, Desire

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• Good days are upon us.

  Narendra Modi

  Good Day

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• We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving, Working Together, Progress

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• Only those who keep walking get sweet returns... look at the sun's perseverance- dynamic & always on the move, never dormant... hence keep moving.

  Narendra Modi

  Perseverance, Sweet, Moving

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• If 125 crore people work together; India will move forward 125 crore steps.

  Narendra Modi

  Moving Forward, People, Together

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• Our mission is skill development. There can be no development with a satiated system.

  Narendra Modi

  Skills, Development, Missions

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• It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.

  Narendra Modi

  Democracy, Ordinary, Red

  "India Independence Day 2014: Top Quotes From Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s First Speech At Red Fort" by Suman Varandani, www.ibtimes.com. August 15, 2014.

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