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• It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

  Sydney Smith

  Wise, Strong, Book

  Sydney Smith (1849). “Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804-1806”, p.102

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• You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Break Through, Risk

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• There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

  Henry Miller

  Ideas, Vision, Sometimes

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.

  Bruce Lee

  Self, Helping, Self Help

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.178, Tuttle Publishing

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• Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

  Martha Beck

  Lost Love, Healing, Creating

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• Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.

  Old Tom Morris

  Success, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

  Voltaire

  Greatness, Understanding, Enlightenment

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• In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Ideas, Issues

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• The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting 100 impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

  Adam Smith

  Law, Effort, Liberty

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• One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.

  Les Brown

  Goal, Perfection, Excellence

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• For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

  Arleigh Burke

  War, Mean, Fighting

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• You don't doubt that the lobby supporting the enactment of same sex-marriage laws in different states is politically powerful, do you?... As far as I can tell, political figures are falling over themselves to endorse your side of the case.

  John Roberts

  Sex, Fall, Gay

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• As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Goal, Grows

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• Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

  Les Brown

  Fear, Empowering, Special

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• You have the courage and power to live your dreams.

  Les Brown

  Motivational, Dream, Power

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• Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

  Susan George

  Army, Administration, Colonialism

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• "Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind".

  John Wesley

  Country, Revenge, Garden

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• There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, People, Design

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• Humans only really learn from each other by storytelling. We didn't evolve to memorize things. We evolved to hear each other's stories and feel them in our heart. Your life is the most powerful story you can tell.

  Martha Beck

  Heart, Stories, Life Is

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• Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant.

  Seth

  Advertising, Relevant

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• The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Errors, Effort

  Adam Smith, John Ramsay McCulloch (1828). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.115

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• It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.

  Ed Parker

  Students, Respectful, Produce

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• Take action in order to move toward your goals.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?

  Peter Atkins

  Simple, Thinking, Inspire

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• Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.

  George Leonard

  Real, Ideas, Keys

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