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"... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition."
"When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory."
"Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you."
"A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won't want to gossip."
"The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration."
"No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable."
"Easy way to make someone sound less powerful, just put DJ in front of their name... ..DJ Abraham Lincoln"
"One minute I'm exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order's given, hell; I'm just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It's up to them now."
"The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal."
"Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings."
"That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful."
"Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings."
"Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It's because you are saying, "Let's see what this other person's life is like." And also it's beyond escapism, its entertainment and art as such can elevate the species. The entertainer supposedly is the muse. They're the ones who tell you what is wrong with society in a humorous way. They're the ones who do an expose about this or a documentary about that about the injustice of this. So it can be a very powerful medium."
"The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too."
"When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful."
"Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered."
"There's no single more powerful or simpler daily practice to further your health and well being than breath work."
"[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one."
"Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law."
"The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them; either to let new light in upon the mind, and open new scenes to the prospect, or to vary the dress and situation of common objects, so as to give them fresh grace and more powerful attractions, to spread such flowers over the regions through which the intellect has already made its progress, as may tempt it to return, and take a second view of things hastily passed over, or negligently regarded."
