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As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
Takashi Murakami
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Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
Robbie Robertson
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The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.
Milton Friedman
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
Imtiaz Ali
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If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.
Iggy Pop
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Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.
Jimmy Hoffa
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I think, therefore I am ... not here.
Nhat Hanh
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
Maisie Williams
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Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.
Vladimir Lenin
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Troubadours have always been more important and influential than theologians and bishops
Brennan Manning
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Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.
Kanye West
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Of course former colonial powers are always more present and influential. They're the ones who need to defend the EU's values on the frontlines.
Alvaro de Vasconcelos
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It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.
Ray Stevens
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What is written is more influential than what is said.
James Cook
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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner
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The most influential time in my life musically was definitely those piano lessons.
Andrew W.K.
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The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
Samuel Smiles
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In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
Russell M. Nelson
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Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.
Roger Ebert
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That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.
Marc Jacobs
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I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.
Hoodie Allen
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Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.
John Dewey
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I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.
Yani Tseng
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Eddie Van Halen was probably the most influential.
Tony Iommi
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Human kind has little or nothing to do with the recent temperature changes. We are not that influential
William M. Gray
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In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.
Lauryn Hill
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I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
Billy Corgan
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Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.
Bob Burg
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Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
Buzz Aldrin
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My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.
Tony Oller
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In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.
Karen Armstrong
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.
Ron Fournier
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
Kat Dennings
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A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack gospel music, but I'm not leading a crusade against it. Of course, the vices of hip-hop are far more influential, I understand. But the good that hip-hop transmits, the power of the culture to rally the best of our protest, and uplift, and resistance, traditions, is often unfairly overlooked.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Donald Trump is so universally despised, because he so often says the wrong thing and has absolutely no moral code outside of just wanting to be powerful and influential.
Timothy Simons
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
Jessica Hagedorn
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Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.
David Hume
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Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.
Noel Gallagher
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The city is always influential in the work, though I've had that temptation to leave, but only recently. It's difficult because whenever I start working someplace else, I'm like, "Man, this would have been better if I had my subwoofer."
Flying Lotus
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[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.
Nat Hentoff
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As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.
David Remnick
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I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.
Wayne Dyer
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Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
Freya Stark
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Every time I make a movie, I'm prepared for it to become influential and career-defining - but I have no control over these things.
Claire Danes