Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.
As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, our president is more than a list of policies. They set the tone of our national character.
I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.
One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'
There's no law of nature that says America must remain the most powerful country in the world.
Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
I was raised Church of England but I love the Buddhist philosophy, it's very powerful, non-violent.
The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal.
The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer.
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
The oil companies, the big polluters, and the climate deniers are incredibly powerful. They will do everything they can to protect their profits.
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.
