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• In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock. In May, my staff worked with outside counsel and with the Senate ethics committee staff to draft a written communication to the trustees. After obtaining pre-approval by mid-June from the Senate ethics committee, I issued a letter directing my trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock in my family's trust.

  Bill Frist

  Communication, Law, June

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• The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Men, World

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.23

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• The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

  Henri Matisse

  Peculiar, Harmony, Invention

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.

  Henri Matisse

  Writing, Use, Would Be

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• It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

  Georges Braque

  Creativity, Mean, Giving

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• Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.

  Ayn Rand

  Work, Pride, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.23, Penguin

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• No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Way, Our Actions, Effects

  Gerald G. Jampolsky (2011). “Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Song, Thinking, Long

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.264

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• It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Animal, Quality, Elements

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• Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics, Happens

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• Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.

  Bill Drayton

  Advancement, Execution, Welfare

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• Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Life Is, Habit

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “What All the World's A-Seeking”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Mind, Machines

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

  Arthur Middleton

  Thinking, Church, Directors

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• As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

  Dave Heineman

  Opportunity, Years, Agriculture

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• I believe that what works for the consumer is to be able to determine what they can pay -- even if it is nothing. (Just joking.) Unfortunately, so many depend on credit for living expenses, and the lower payments helped them in the immediate term. I am OK with that. For those who want their minimum to be more, you don't have to wait on your credit issuer to increase the payment -- do it on your own. For others, at this time, I think it's a horrible idea.

  Trina

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Students, Ability

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Wisdom, Emotional

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, God, Christian

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• Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Lists, Thinker

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Risk

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Heart, Men, Color

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.21, Taylor Trade Publications

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• If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Faith, Greatness, Play

  Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge (2017). “The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.2907, Madison & Adams Press

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• New Living Translation
  And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare.

  Jeremiah

  Cities, Praying, Prosperity

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• Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.

  Javan

  Life, Attitude, Fate

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