#powerful

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. ↗

— Leon Kass

#cloning #danger #example #immediate #into

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. ↗

— Leon Kass

#benefits #biomedical #clear #hazards #less

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#built #burnt #create #egypt #felt

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. ↗

— Brad Thor

#another #equaled #freedom #freedom of speech #i

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#conception #confirm #either #film #idea

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

#advantages #communicate #different #different ways #down

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity. ↗

— Tony Wilson

#homegrown #local #powerful #quite

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#bring #certify #discover #even #his

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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She says it is a school for bluestockings which, according to her, is really only a fashionable way of saying it is a school for ugly girls who cannot find suitable husbands. To tease her, for I believe it is one of his greatest pleasures in this life, my father bought a pair of blue silk stockings for me the day we received my letter of acceptance. That evening and the next, father and I dined alone. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#chick-lit #gender-studies #gothic-romance #historical-fiction #powerful-women