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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
Theodor Adorno

Person, Others, Able

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
William Wordsworth

Poetry, Feelings, Takes

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose Bierce

History, Shows, Nations

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S. Truman

Great, Decision, Another

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts

Nothing, Negative, Empty

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan

Politics, Happy, Image

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Benjamin Disraeli

Lose, Prophets, Conquerors

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

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham

Young, Belief, Common

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler

Emotional, Feeling, Human

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.
Stephen Hawking

Good, Alone, Same

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke

Good, Happy, Rest

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
Ansel Adams

Perception, Expression, Infinite

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

Men, Free, Matter

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes, Genius

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Jean-Paul Sartre

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen King

God, Awesome, Idea

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Men, Down, Different

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler

Emotional, Feeling, Greater

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
Benjamin Disraeli

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.
Rush Limbaugh

Change, Hope, History

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry

Music, Words, Together

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Great, Become, While

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid

Chance, Fish, Expect

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles

Conscience, Within, Terrible

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
John Ruskin

Work, Age, Best

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin

Great, Human, Free

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Noam Chomsky

Moral, Standards, Impose

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust

Strength, Him, Idea

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Ralph Marston

Big, Problems, Welcome

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