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• Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

  Danny Silk

  Jobs, People, Trying

  Danny Silk, Bob Hasson (2017). “The Business of Honor: Restoring the Heart of Business”, p.41, BookBaby

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• The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

  Danny Silk

  Children, Punishment, Differences

  Danny Silk (2009). “Loving Our Kids on Purpose”, p.127, Destiny Image Publishers

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• And we may be led, then, upward through more
  Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
  With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
  Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
  Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

  John Ashbery

  Country, Art, Real

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

  James Madison

  Government, People, Arms

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• ...There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never "plain," nor appearances ever "sincere." To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in Western culture since the Reformation: the fact that it cannot be trusted, that imagery is always presumed to be proposing something contestable and controversial. This is the sheer, ebullient, slithering, dangerous fun of it. No image is presumed inviolable in our dance hall of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful.

  Dave Hickey

  Fun, Issues, Trying

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• Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.

  Leigh Brackett

  Judging, Allies, Looks

  "Fictional character: Yoda". "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back", 1980.

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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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• Women are powerful and dangerous.

  Audre Lorde

  Dangerous

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• Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his nap, slumped, open-mouthed, profoundly himself without thought for appearances. Yet, this is not quite true. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In conversation, those uneasy eyes upon you, those lips ready with an emendation before you have begun to speak, are a powerful deterrent to unreality, even to hope.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Believe, Communication, Mean

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.27, New York Review of Books

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• Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.

  Stefan Zweig

  Leadership, Fall, Fate

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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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• In order to be able to make and keep commitments... to enduring, intimate relationships... you need to be a certain kind of person. You need to be a powerful person. Powerful people take responsibility for their lives and choices. Powerful people choose who they want to be with, what they are going to pursue in life, and how they are going to go after it.

  Danny Silk

  Commitment, Responsibility, Intimate Relationships

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• Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Champion, Faces, Needs

  "Elizabeth Edwards: 'With Less Armor Than I Have, They Fight Too'". Elizabeth Edwards' speech at Consumer Watchdog’s 2007 Rage for Justice dinner, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2010.

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• There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Magic, One Day At A Time

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• Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive your success.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Outcomes, Ownership

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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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• Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Art

  Tim F. LaHaye, Beverly LaHaye (1994). “A Nation Without a Conscience”

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• No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Clever, Long, People

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Encouragement, Cousin, Brother

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• Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

  Raymond Cattell

  Horse, Plato, Passion

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• Part of what makes a situation traumatic is not talking about it. Talking reduces trauma symptoms. When we don't talk about trauma, we remain emotionally illiterate. Our most powerful feelings go unnamed and unspoken.

  Tian Dayton

  Talking, Silence, Feelings

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• No matter what character your play. I feel like whenever anyone is honest and whole and well-written, you're going to be able to connect to that person because we're all kinda made up of the same stuff and I think that's always one of the really powerful things about approaching each individual character and role and film.

  Ellen Page

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

  Rick Perlstein

  Lying, Two, Political

  "Inside the GOP’s Fact-Free Nation" by Rick Perlstein, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

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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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• For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.

  Michael Stipe

  Song, Mtv, Fans

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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