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• It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Blow, Wind, May

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• Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Giving, Warning

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• Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

  Walker Percy

  Discovery, May, Way

  Walker Percy (1988). “The moviegoer”

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• Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.

  Jessica Valenti

  Character, Mean, Self Worth

  "She Who Dies With the Most 'Likes' Wins?" by Jessica Valenti, www.thenation.com. November 29, 2012.

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• The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.

  Jim Rohn

  Blow, Opportunity, Wind

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• We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

  John F. Kennedy

  Interest, Term, Policy

  Speech at the Mormon Tabernacle, delivered 26 September 1963, Salt Lake City, Utah

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• Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

  Erich Fromm

  Practice, Feelings, Society

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Trying, Politician

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, African American, Black

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• For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Views, Years, Twenties

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.6, Random House

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• Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it?

  Mark Zandi

  Home, Two, Choices

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• Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Hero, Passion

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• Custom determines what is agreeable.

  Blaise Pascal

  Customs

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.102, Letcetera Publishing

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• ... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

  Billy Graham

  Death, Views, Degrees

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Mean, Men, Law

  "United States v. United Mine Workers, 330 U.S. 258". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 6, 1947.

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• Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

  Molly Ivins

  Taken, Writing, Years

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.9, Vintage

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• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  Karl Abraham

  Difficult Questions, Long, Choices

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Unhappiness, Persons, Impotence

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• Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not only of individual astronomical objects but of the entire cosmos. The same remorseless attraction that crushes a star operates on a much grander scale on the universe as a whole.

  Paul Davies

  Crush, Nature, Stars

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.65, Basic Books

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• Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

  Edward Hirsch

  Giving, Religion, Doe

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• "Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." Ideals do not determine what we do to make a living in life; They govern what we become as we do it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Stars, Destiny, Hands

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• The question 'Who am I?' is not an idle one. How you answer the question will determine how you live the rest of your life. It will determine the quality of your life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Attitude, Quality

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• Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

  William Arthur Ward

  Attitude, Sincere, Vow

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• As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and keep our problems festering. Others are tonic and bring us beyond the limitations of our previous history. To be in a life of our own definition, we must be able to discover which stories we are following and determine which ones help us grow the most interesting possibilities.

  Dawna Markova

  Interesting, Toxic, Stories

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humorous, Needs

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