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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. -- Thomas Jefferson
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. -- Archimedes
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. -- Ravi Zacharias
My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending. -- Kate Christensen
Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.' -- Graham Joyce
Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience. -- Jay Heinrichs
Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth! -- Ayn Rand
Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. -- Ambrose Bierce

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