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I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India. -- Nandan Nilekani
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources. -- Seth Priebatsch
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. -- Thomas Jefferson
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. -- Thomas J. Watson
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. -- Archimedes
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. -- Daniel Webster
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up. -- Maria Cantwell
But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others. -- Mark Wahlberg
Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine. -- Allison Williams
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom's only instruction was 'You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.' That's my welcome to adulthood. She's like, 'No, don't even read it. Just pull the Republican lever. -- Tina Fey
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. -- Alexandre Dumas
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We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another. -- Bill Maris
Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences. -- Edmund Phelps
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence. -- Simone Weil
The mightiest lever known to the world: imagination. -- William Wordsworth
Mind is the great lever of all things. -- Daniel Webster
The pen is the lever that moves the world. -- Thomas De Witt Talmage
Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys. -- Paul Henderson
I am the time machine of love. Quick, pull my big lever! -- Jarod Kintz
O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! -- Mikhail Lermontov
Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. -- Archimedes
Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem. -- Terry Pratchett
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Would you pull the lever for yourself, Ben Affleck? What has Barack Obama meant to your movie career, Ben? -- Rush Limbaugh
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. -- Thomas J. Watson
It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens. -- Sarah Miller
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.
No matter how carefully you plan it, there are times when you suddenly find yourself a committee of one, in charge of lifting the entire world with a lever. -- Ivy Baker Priest
All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright. -- Isaac Marion
In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in society a longer lever to work with. -- Edward Alsworth Ross
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow. -- B. H. Liddell Hart

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