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Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
Joy Page
Change
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Focus
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Cannot
For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
Dennis Prager
Music
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Human
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Why
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow
Love
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Music
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Politics
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
A. N. Wilson
Alone
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Thoughts
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Put
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.
Hilary Mantel
Life
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Book
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Through
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Galen Rowell
Human
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Audience
,
Landscape
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
Meghan O'Rourke
Face
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Quite
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Wonder
There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
Galen Rowell
Words
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Question
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Complex
The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
Gerard Butler
Music
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Second
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Role
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mean
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Cannot
,
Themselves
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
William C. Bryant
Art
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Poetry
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Thought
I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.
Kyra Sedgwick
Work
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Time
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Character
The cholera most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others.
Titus Salt
Nothing
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After
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Others
Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured.
Thomas E. Mann
Political
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Enjoy
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Values
Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.
Lawrence Wright
Down
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Different
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Put
I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'
Greil Marcus
Great
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Movies
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Born
At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other.
James Tobin
Time
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Hope
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Two
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
William Albert Allard
Work
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Alone
,
Words
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
John Newton
God
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Works
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Gently
The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.
Hermann Oberth
Capable
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Carrying
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Built
In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.
Joe Simon
Movies
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Today
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Loyalty
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