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• Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

  Christian D. Larson

  Destiny, Thinking, Maps

  Christian D. Larson (2009). “Your Forces and How to Use Them”, p.72, The Floating Press

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• Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being

  Helmut Gernsheim

  Art, Men, Ideas

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• The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

  Peter Farb

  Opportunity, Men, Doe

  PETER FARB (1968). “MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION AS SHOWN BY THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA FROM PRIMEVAL TIMES TO THE COMING OF THE INDUSTRIAL STATE”

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• How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

  Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

  Judging, World, Judgment

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• Television is likely to do more to revolutionize politics than sound broadcasting did. Political candidates may have to adopt new techniques to benefit from visual radio: their dress, their smiles and gestures, all will be important. How they look, as well as what they say, may determine to an appreciable extent their popularity. The eyes of the public will be upon them.

  David Sarnoff

  Eye, Political, Important

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• Without doubt machines will be able to determine the means and avenues to goals, but men will continue to set the goals themselves. For what machine can ever apply the considerations of compassion and justice which, as man's enlightenment spreads ... will enter ever more into the decisions that affect his future ... in the universe?

  Lewis Strauss

  Business, Mean, Men

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• Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

  Bob Wise

  Wise, Teacher, Children

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• Your level of gratitude determines your level of happiness, as well as your potential for success. It's difficult to be happy without gratitude.

  Bob Burg

  Gratitude, Attitude, Bad Day

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• You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.

  Randy Gage

  Negative, Affirmation, Programming

  Randy Gage (2003). “101 Keys to Your Prosperity: Insights on Health, Happiness and Abundance in Your Life”, p.33, Internet Profit Kit

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• Who you become today will determine what you are capable of creating tomorrow.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Creating, Today

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• Through the good times and bad, the quality of your relationships will ultimately determine the quality of your life. So be grateful for your loved ones and focus on adding as much value to their lives as you possibly can.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Grateful, Focus

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Feb 17, 2013

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• How we start our day determines how we create our life. Are you snoozing through your morning... snoozing through your life... and snoozing through your unlimited potential... Or are YOU committed to waking up each day with passion, purpose, and a plan so you can create the life you truly want & deserve?

  Hal Elrod

  Morning, Passion, Unlimited Potential

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from May 17, 2011

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• Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in an acceptable, ethical way. . . . You can ask yourself: How will I feel if my business dealings today are secretly recorded on a hidden video camera, and appear on this evening's television newscast for all to see?

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Technology, Video, Television

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• It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Thinking, Play, Age

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.59

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• Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Consumerism, Overconsumption, True Worth

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• Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Future, Decision, Joy

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• The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of an inner crisis that is, for lack of a better word, spiritual... what other word describes the collection of values and assumptions that determine our basic understanding of how we fit into the universe?

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Roots, Understanding

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.12, Routledge

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• Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Track, Understanding

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• Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Buddhism, Important

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• When you die in this life, you might be experiencing pain, but the structure of your perceptual field will determine your next lifetime. That structure has been determined by the way you have led this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Might, Way

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• At the time of death, whatever you have focused on the most will determine your next life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Next, Rebirth, Focused

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• There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.

  Donal Logue

  Thinking, People, Live Your Life

  "Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Interview TERRIERS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Watch your habits, they determine your character.

  Winston Churchill

  Character, Watches, Habit

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• Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Chance, Planning, Exposure

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Lear. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus. Macbeth. Coriolanus”, p.362

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• There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

  Mencius

  Jobs, Artist, Power

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