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The successors to those dictators, however, found this turn of events to be an unwanted complication in their political “thaws”; more sophisticated mechanisms to induce fear among their peoples were needed, and there are few deterrents to dissident activity more potent than the threat of removal to an institution for the criminally insane.

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And I am reminded that throughout the world there are cultures with vast sums of knowledge in them, as potent as the Micronesian navigators, that are going dismissed, that this is a testament to brilliant, brilliant technology and science and wisdom that is vanishing rapidly.

And I was actually a potent force in spreading ideas across borders, and I witnessed the rise of Islamist extremism as distinct from Islam the faith, and the way in which it influenced my co-religionists across the world.

Language really is the most potent trait that has ever evolved.

We sent it to Oxford, England, where a group of talented crystallographers provided this picture, which helped us understand exactly how this molecule is so potent for this protein target.

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