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“If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.”

Ifs Way Would Be Felt Understanding Influence Self Love One Way Spite Carrie Wiser Leading Me

Author:Ovid

“I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.”

Humans Felt Ability Influence Impact I Realized Closest Linked Superpower Viral

Author:Emerson Spartz

“In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.”

Source: Democracy in America: Book One

“Which countries contain the most peaceful, the most moral, and the happiest people? Those people are found in the countries where the law least interferes with private affairs; where the government is least felt; where the individual has the greatest scope, and free opinion the greatest influence; where the administrative powers are fewest and simplest; where taxes are lightest and most nearly equal”

People Country Government Law Found Individual Felt Moral Opinion Influence Taxes Equal Affair Peaceful Interfere Simplest Scope Administrative Free Opinion

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“To worship the Lord is to stand valiantly in the cause of truth and righteousness, to let our influence for good be felt in civic, cultural, educational, and governmental fields, and to support those laws and principles which further the Lord's interests on earth.”

Earth Law Felt Causes Interest Lord Principles Support Influence Fields Worship Educational Righteousness Civics Worship The Lord

Author:Bruce R. McConkie

“I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.”

War Felt Influence International Dare Proportion Treaties Renunciation

Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

“Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.”

Way Country Young Felt Audience Influence Television Huge Appeals Mtv Moguls

Book:Pride: the Charley Pride story

Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story

“In all honesty, I think I just played what I felt was right for me. And I think I would have done the same thing, even if I'd been born later, when Charlie Parker was influencing everybody. The truth is, I never gave it much thought. I just played what I had to play.”

Ifs Thinking Done Play Felt Born Influence Honesty Truth Is Charlie

Author:Benny Carter

“There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.”

Thinking Want Trying Girl Speak Social Felt Heard Influence Needed Periods Sexuality Platforms Stigma Speaks Out Positive Influence

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“For me, there's always an early-'70s sense. There's always a sprinkle of it - if I do it exactly like that, sometimes it becomes too costume-y or too thought out. But the influences are there, without a doubt, always, because to me, that was the part that I also felt was the most defining of my own personality and my own style, and I also think that it's timeless. You never look wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Sometimes Felt My Own Doubt Influence Style Personality Timeless Costumes Defining Sprinkles My Own Style My Own Personality

Author:Paul Weller

“The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.”

Littles Individual Felt Decision Opinion Influence Possibility Citizens Decision Making

Author:Erich Fromm