"Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future."
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"Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self."
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"Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life."
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"Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it."
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"The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that."
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"Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say."
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"Influence is the single most important skill you can master in your lifetime."
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"The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse."
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"Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing."
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"He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow."
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"If only I had the influence with my wife and children that I have in some other quarters!"
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"If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence."
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"It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world."
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"It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me."
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"Lil Wayne, who is actually responsible for my career has always been a huge influence to me and one of my heroes."
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"Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex."
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"Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence."
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"There are only a handful of designers that influence other designers, and I have to keep one step ahead of the game."
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"None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence."
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"The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx."
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