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• In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Statistics, Succeed

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Fundamentals, Medical Science, Disease

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• It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Government, Church

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• It's my personal opinion and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are determines how you react to any excess of any kind.

  George Hamilton

  Thinking, Personal Opinions, Healthy

  "QA: George Hamilton Not Afraid of Skin Cancer, Says Women Don't Like Men Who Know They're Good Looking". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Relationships shouldn't be disposable. If there's something worth saving - not always the case, some relationships are irreconcilable - but if there is something that you determine is worth saving, then try to do that.

  Steve Carell

  Trying, Saving, Cases

  "‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’: Steve Carell Talks Divorce, Infidelity In New Film". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2011.

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• America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.

  Robert Pozen

  Country, Party, Ideas

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• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  Lance Burton

  Children, Parent, Asking

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• The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom a person should have a relationship.

  Michael Badnarik

  Sex, Party, Issues

  "Candidate Profile: Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2004.

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• These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

  Jose Canseco

  Careers, Giving, Would Be

  "Canseco: No Qualms About Using Steroids". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2005.

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• The decisions you are making right now and that you will make in the foreseeable months and years will absolutely determine whether you pivot towards the world or towards the Lord.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Years, Decision, World

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• The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.

  Jim Doyle

  Strong, Kids, Successful

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• Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  New York, Fate, Gay

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Thinking, Want

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

  Trey Gowdy

  Jobs, Errors, Paper

  "Gowdy to first-hand account Benghazi eyewitnesses: You will be protected". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 30, 2013.

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• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Military, Israel, Cities

  Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

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• As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Decisions You Make, Important

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

  James Wolfe

  Loss, Choices, Difficulty

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• How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

  Darren Johnson

  Quality, Stuff, Deals

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• Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Jobs, Fun, Passion

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• A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society.

  Natan Sharansky

  Simple, Squares, Views

  Natan Sharansky, Ron Dermer (2009). “The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror”, p.48, PublicAffairs

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• Does what you think of you determine your worth?

  Janet Jackson

  Thinking, Doe, Unanswered Questions

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• Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford to open up the high frontier. What we do during the next ten or twenty years may determine whether future generations will live in a humane and rewarding society, or whether they will spend their lives in desperate contention for the dwindling sustenance afforded by our limited terrestrial resources.

  Philip K. Chapman

  Space, Our Generation, Years

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• Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Names, Decision, President

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• I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.

  Kevin Powers

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Issues, Excellence, Use

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1845, BookCaps Study Guides

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