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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes yo...

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I have never known Frances to complain once of my Church responsibilities. I have been gone many day...

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For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

The excluded when on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true leper are only the illustration...

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…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if thing...

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Tenar, I go where I am sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long. D...

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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a po...

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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful a...

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in...

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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

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The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of pa...

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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaini...

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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wiel...

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No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before t...

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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no p...

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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a streng...

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And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very p...

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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own ...

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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There...

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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the g...

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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and...

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Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet...

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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents...

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The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond....

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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than c...

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Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever i...

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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes...

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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an...

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I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into word...

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One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power...

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History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or h...

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The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of h...

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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to t...

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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind ...

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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so pow...

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Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely...

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We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest ...

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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not pr...

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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your po...

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You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely fre...

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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be intro...

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There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and sk...

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I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about ...

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Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They jus...

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Embedded in 'The New York Times' institutional perspective and reporting methodologies are all sorts...

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The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of right...

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In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth...

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But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and suppo...

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But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his w...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wi...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, th...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more a...

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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powe...

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The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the...

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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. Ther...

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But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?...

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To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is trem...

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Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly al...

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I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words o...

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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the fo...

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Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of the...

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We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: ...

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The Master doesn't try to be powerful;thus he is truly powerful.The ordinary man keeps reaching for ...

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The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old mai...

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We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upwar...

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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroy...

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When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more ...

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Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't," Pers...

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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and t...

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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantag...

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To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...

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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you c...

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