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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Alfred Adler The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Chief Seattle A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
    Source: Speech 1854
    Chief Seattle
    Chief of the Suquamish and Duwanish Indians (1780 - 1866)
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  • Plato An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
    Source: Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Les Brown As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Brendan Francis At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Richard M. DeVos Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ''you can do it'' when things are tough.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Marcel Proust For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Victor Hugo Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Louise Erdrich Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Carol Roth Social media can be a powerful tool to listen to, engage with and gain access to customers that you would otherwise not be able to connect with.
    Carol Roth
    American television personality and author (1973 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Bruce Cockburn 'Each One Lost' I wrote the day after I got home. My week in Afghanistan was a very short trip, but it was a powerful experience.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Cat Stevens 'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Carol Gilligan ... while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • A. Philip Randolph A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Mark Twain A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Marcel Proust A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Umberto Eco A secret is powerful when it is empty.
    Source:  (2016)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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