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• Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Choices, Ships, Events

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• Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.

  Thomas Sowell

  Income, May, Rich

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.332, Hoover Press

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• I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.

  Michael Feinstein

  Long, Important, Significant

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• When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.

  Steve Jobs

  Player, People, Doe

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• It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Honesty, Goodness, Results

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• Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Choices

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• Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify
  them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reality, Choices, Fundamentals

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1985). “Existentialism and Human Emotions”, Citadel Press

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• Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.

  Robert Kennedy

  Nature, Lying, Fate

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• The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, War, Degrees

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• How much weight you can carry in your mind will determine how far you can go in life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Mind, Weight

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• Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Nature, Wells

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• We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Dream, Men, Different

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• Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Dream, Fate, Ukraine

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• The Life of Christ determines everything about us.

  David Platt

  Christ

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• Priority determines capacity.

  Andy Stanley

  Priorities, Capacity

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• It's crap that you're letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.

  Colleen Hoover

  Fate, Years, Rest Of Your Life

  Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• [God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.

  Andy Stanley

  Home, Heart, Buckets

  Andy Stanley (2006). “Fields of Gold”, Tyndale House Pub

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• The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then consequently the way you breathe. And then, the way you breathe effects the way you think.

  Rhys Ifans

  Moving, Taken, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The most important lesson I think I could impart is don't let anyone determine what your horizons are going to be. You get to determine those yourself. The only limitations are whatever particular talents you happen to have and how hard you're willing to work. And if you let others define who you ought to be, or what you ought to be because they put you in a category, they see your race, they see your gender and they put you in a category. You shouldn't let that happen.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Race, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reading, May, Matter

  Interview with Paul Auster, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• Our thoughts determine our age.

  Yoko Ono

  Age, Our Thoughts

  Interview with Takashi Murakami, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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• I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Should Have, Magic

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• Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Eye, Degrees

  Source: lithiummagazine.com

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• I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, America, Cynical

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• We don't have the power as humans to determine which day we die. We don't get to make that decision.

  Eric Thomas

  Decision, Humans, Dies

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