Quotes with powerful

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  • Francis Bacon 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
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bruce Sterling Information is not power. If information were power, then librarians would be the most powerful people on the planet.
    Speech at Social Work Futures Conference, Houston, Tex., 23 May 1994
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • James Allen It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Clive James It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Susan Sontag It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Andrew Jackson It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Buddy Rice It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world.
    Buddy Rice
    American racecar driver (1976 - )
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  • Bill Drayton It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Blaise Pascal Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bill Owens Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • John Marshall Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
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  • Barbara de Angelis Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Augustus Hare Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is more powerful than matter.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • George F. Will Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Albert Bandura Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Seneca Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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