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• Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.

  George Gershwin

  Powerful, Blood, People

  "The Relation of Jazz to American Music", in Henry Cowell (ed.) American Composers on American Music, 1933.

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• I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Powerful, People, Solitude

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• The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Greatness, Church

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• We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Wise, Powerful, Distance

  "The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa".

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• Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you'll see eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Powerful, Buddhism

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• Black churches are very powerful forces in the African American community and always have been. Because religion has been that one place where you have an imagination that no one can control. And so, as long as you know that you are a human being and nobody can take that away from you, then God is that reality in your life that enables you to know that.

  James H. Cone

  Powerful, Reality, Long

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• Perfectionism is really a manifestation of the belief that one's efforts are never good enough. Imagine: How many of the obstacles standing in your way are the product of your own imagination? What have you convinced yourself that you can't do? What limitations have you come to believe in? Your mind is very powerful and effective. Is it working for you, or against you?

  Ralph Marston

  Powerful, Believe, Imagination

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• Faith is a very powerful force in the history of humanity. So I greatly respect different kinds of faith. Just as I think diversity is a really good thing genetically, it's also a good thing societally.

  George M. Church

  Powerful, Thinking, Diversity

  "Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back from the Dead?". Interview with Philip Bethge, Johann Grolle, www.spiegel.de. January 18, 2013.

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• There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

  Stanislav Grof

  Powerful, People, Chance

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• Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Powerful, Czech Republic, Political

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• If you are centered in peace and think thoughts that are kind and loving, you will attract the same kind of ideas and feelings back to you. Remember, thoughts are like very powerful magnets!

  James Van Praagh

  Powerful, Positive Thinking, Ideas

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• When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger.

  Simon McBurney

  Powerful, Mean, Thinking

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• Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.

  Ivan Misner

  Jobs, Powerful, People

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• Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.

  Brendan Sullivan

  Powerful, Tape, Evidence

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• You don’t feel as real if you don’t see yourself reflected in the media […] There’s something very powerful about seeing yourself represented.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Powerful, Real, Media

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• Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

  James Davison Hunter

  Powerful, Ideas, Way

  James Davison Hunter (2010). “To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World”, p.44, Oxford University Press

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• Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.

  Michael Josephson

  Powerful, Mean, Yes And No

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• You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

  Yul Vazquez

  Powerful, Estonia, Television

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• Tradition is a very powerful force.

  John P. Kotter

  Powerful, Tradition, Force

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• The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Water, Taoism

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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, Powerful, Writing

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

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• Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.

  Al Pacino

  Powerful, Rebel, Causes

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

  Ciara

  Powerful, Believe, Trying

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• Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

  Nelson Mandela

  Powerful, Struggle, Weapons

  Twitter post from Oct 24, 2015

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• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Powerful, Husband, Three

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