"The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage."
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"Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough."
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"Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God."
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"Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence."
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"We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this."
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"Give out what you most want to come back."
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"Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t see. Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out."
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"He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful."
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"All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger."
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"You have everything you need. A miraculous body, a phenomenal brain, and a vast powerful subconscious mind. Now it's just a matter of focusing them in the right direction"
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"Woman was God's second mistake."
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"To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back."
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"Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war."
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"Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide."
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"When aroused the American conscience is a powerful force for reform."
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"Knowing what you can do at any given time to look and feel better is pretty powerful."
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"The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful."
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"What Is, is more important than What Should Be."
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"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution."
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"These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government."
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