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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

It is a truly powerful phenomenon when a brand makes a stand for what it believes in.
Simon Mainwaring

Makes, Stand, Truly

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Publilius Syrus

Indeed, Habit, Empire

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

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
Loretta Young

Greatest, Prayer, Universe

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Power, Prize, Cared

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
Marshall McLuhan

Against, Public, Private

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
William Bernbach

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
Henry Louis Gates

Time, Him, King

'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

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

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
William J. Clinton

Force, Cultural

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

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.
Pierre Corneille

Enough, Against, State

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Daniel Webster

Truth, Nothing, Strange

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Percy Ross

Success, Happiness, Opinion

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Tim Holden

Society, Racism, Prejudice

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Wilhelm Reich

Character, Political, Reality

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
Alton Brown

Hate, Done, Earth

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Louisa May Alcott

Character, She, Worth

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
Howard Gardner

Single, Leader, Stories

The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.
Jolene Blalock

Girl, Loyalty, Nothing

The most powerful moral influence is example.
Huston Smith

Moral, Influence, Example

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
Phaedrus

Person, Safe, Alliance

In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.
Simon Mainwaring

Business, Become, Social

The launch of Google+ apps sends a powerful signal - the personalized web has begun. What this means is that the way information is structured and accessed will turn on the individual, or rather their personal profile which is a composite of all the data collected on the basis of what they have searched for and shared.
Simon Mainwaring

Rather, Personal, Means

Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.
Simon Mainwaring

Good, Hope, Two

Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good.
Simon Mainwaring

Good, Live, Reality

Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.
Dee Dee Myers

Cool, America, Again

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