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• Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

  Aleister Crowley

  Determination, Destiny, Ideas

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 48, 1969.

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• If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Believe, Talking

  R.A Torrey, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOW TO PRAY”, Lulu.com

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• Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

  Bruce Lee

  Encouragement, Moving, Goal

  Bruce Lee, John Little (1997). “Jeet kune do: Bruce Lee's commentaries on the martial way”, Tuttle Publishing

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• With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

  James Thurber

  Birthday, Sarcastic, Writing

  1955 In the New York Post, 30 Jun.

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• I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

  William Carey

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Paint, Form

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.15, Hudson Hills

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• Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

  Philip Guedalla

  Easter, Fiction, Biographies

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• Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.

  Thomas Huxley

  Work, Data, May

  "Geological Reform". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 25, 1869.

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• We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.

  Immanuel Kant

  God, Science, Space

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony, and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Infinite Intelligence, Two

  "The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity".

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• If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go.

  Keith Green

  Missionary, Motto, Missions

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• By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Goal, Legends

  Theodor W. Adorno (2012). “Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords”, p.6, Columbia University Press

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• You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wind, Agents, May

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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• I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Men, Tree

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Buddhism

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• There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

  Paullina Simons

  Book, Heart, Thinking

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• There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

  John Romero

  Art, Together, Different

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• I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

  Michael Polanyi

  Data, Natural, Propositions

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• For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

  Oren Peli

  Real, Style, Way

  "Behind the Scenes With Paranormal Activity Creator" by Joel Meares, www.wired.com. September 27, 2011.

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• A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.

  Sir John Woodroffe

  Letters, Way, Sound

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• Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.

  Rene Descartes

  Real, Roots, Ontology

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• I've been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. She's incredibly strong; she's incredibly generous. She's seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Relationship, Strong, Insane

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• Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, People

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

  Henrietta Mears

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Educational

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• Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

  Stefan Zweig

  Life, Goal, Life Is

  Stefan Zweig (1927). “Conflicts: Three Tales”

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