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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
Charles Babbage

Time, Science, Others

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
Desmond Tutu

God, Against, Grace

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Ovid

Nothing, Habit, Custom

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip Randolph

Person, Enjoy, Social

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
Desiderius Erasmus

Ignorant, Reputation, Doctor

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam Chomsky

Nature, History, Nothing

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Great, Society, Rich

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
James Allen

Process, Forces, Channel

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
Stephen Covey

Life, Forget, Together

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
Molly Ivins

Against, Weapon, Satire

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos

Great, Experience, Tell

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
Jimmy Carter

God, Blessed, Self

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.
Annie Lennox

Music, Emotions, Found

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.
David Lynch

Movies, Sex, Flat

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Mikhail Bakunin

Themselves, Crime, Weakness

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Sarah Silverman

Truth, Real, Word

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.
Hugh Jackman

Dad, Husband, Everything

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
Suze Orman

Money, Teacher, Amazing

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.
Bryant H. McGill

Truth, Action, Joins

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Wangari Maathai

Poor, Often, Blaming

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
Pat Robertson

God, Help, Prayer

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
Marquis de Sade

Two, Lust, Variety

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens

Hope, Again, Rise

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens

Peace, Hope, Through

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.
Martin Scorsese

Time, Good, Through

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
Michael Bergin

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.
Tori Amos

Woman, Another, Order

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
Salman Rushdie

Happen, Thought, Remember

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
Jena Malone

Love, Friendship, Respect

The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Between, Social

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