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"You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you."
"Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
"I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence."
"The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could venter themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace."
"It’s pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction."
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
"DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it."
"If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system."
"None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience."
"In the middle of chaos lies opportunity."
"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."
"As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people."
"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."
"When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears."
"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives."
"If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."
"Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy."
"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life."
"Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey."
