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		Dried oregano has thirty times the brain-healing antioxidant power of raw blueberries, forty-six times more than apples, and fifty-six times as much as strawberries, making it one of the most powerful brain cell protectors on the planet.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Amen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brendon Burchard
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Camille
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My goal is that a girl will watch 'The Martian' or 'Interstellar' and think, 'I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.' It's important to show powerful women who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jessica Chastain
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Monica Lewinsky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again say that they they were dead but now have come to life. We have become hardened to those words, but they are powerful words that have significant meaning. Yet when those outside the church see no difference in our lives, they begin to question our integrity, out sanity, or even worse, our God. And can you blame them?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Francis Chan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the most athletic people, but they're very powerful people, and they have tremendous stamina... It takes a toll on their body, too.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jon Favreau
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Subcomandante Marcos
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Michael O'Brien
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you're in the moment and you're riding a train and you're asked to look scared, I don't know, it just kind of works out. And in those moments where you're actually doing some of the stunts, then it's not so hard at all, because there's an actual fear there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Pine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wednesday Martin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William James
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Gibson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anna Holmes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Polley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William F. Schulz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Children are resilient and strong with powerful spirits.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rhea Perlman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marianne Williamson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles A. Reich
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter York
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Meredith Whitney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Erica Jong