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• What he [Bernie Sanders] does next will really determine whether he is blazing a trail that others can follow into office, or whether he is an exception to the rule.

  Ben Wikler

  Exception To The Rule, Office, Doe

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• You may not become a celebrity. You may even experience lots of illness or divorce, or unhappiness. But I think there is still a thread of individual character that determines how you live through those things.

  James Hillman

  Character, Divorce, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Skin Color, Skins

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Supreme Court nominations are an occasion to pause and reflect on the values that make our nation strong, just and fair. And we must determine whether a nominee has a demonstrated commitment to those basic values.

  Edward Kennedy

  Strong, Commitment, Nominations

  "Kennedy's Opening Statement", www.nytimes.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm who they'll look to as an example.

  Candace Cameron

  Children, Believe, Example

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• I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Giving Up, Father, Years

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.

  Frances Beinecke

  Moving, Fighting, Fate

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• How we treat others will determine how others treat us, and how others treat us will determine who we are.

  Sharon Gannon

  Who We Are, Treats

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• Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and color are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Eye, Light

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• The fact is, some of the most respected scientific bodies in the world, including Codex Alimentarius (jointly run by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations), the American Medical Association, the British Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association, have stated that more research needs to be done on GMOs through premarket safety assessments before we can truthfully determine their safety.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Running, Assessment, Organization

  "Zoe Lister-Jones: The Dangers of GMOs". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.

  Geert Wilders

  Law, Leaving, Immigration

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.

  Christine Sneed

  Believe, I Believe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.

  Paul Ryan

  America, Outcomes, Birth

  "NPR's Interview With House Speaker Paul Ryan On Poverty And Politics". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 15, 2016.

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• The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

  John Dewey

  Facts, Groups, Birth

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• In general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions. And these habitudes which lie below the level of reflection are just those which have been formed in the constant give and take of relationship with others.

  John Dewey

  Lying, Reflection, Thinking

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• It is only up to the Syrian people living in Syria to determine who, how and based on what principles should rule their country, and any external advice would be absolutely inappropriate, harmful and against international law.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Law, People

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• If we want to cure the things that threaten life, limb and even survival, we need to heal our sick political system. That is, not just to address our physical ailments, but the things that determine whether we're going to survive into the next century. That is war, climate change, poverty, etc. We've got to fix our politics.

  Jill Stein

  War, Sick, Political

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". Los Angeles Times Interview, www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.

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• I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine the structure of the play. By which is meant, I suspect, only that the unconscious mind has done its work so thoroughly that the play just has to be filtered through the conscious mind. But there's work to be done - and discovery to be made.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Kids, Discovery

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.63, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die.

  Marc Goodman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• Having inborn capabilities doesn't matter. Whether you can manage them or not, that's what determines the victory or defeat.

  Hong Jin-joo

  Drama, Victory, Matter

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• Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Dark, Years, Mind

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• The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  War, Moral, Hours

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• The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.

  Donna M. Loring

  Kids, Playing Games, Law

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• Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state began. The powers of both were often combined. As a result, churches frequently used the force of the state to promote and enforce their interests and doctrines. This caused horrendous atrocities against Jews and heretics, as well as the European religious wars between Catholics and Protestants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that resulted in the deaths of millions of people.

  Jayne Meadows

  Religious, War, Government

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• It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must either illuminate, thwart, or alter what the character wants. A good complication puts emotional pressure on a character, promoting that character not only to act, but to act with purpose.If the circumstance does none of these things, then it's not a complication at all - it's a situation. This situation, or setup, might be interesting or even astonishing, but it gives the story no point of departure.

  Monica Wood

  Character, Writing, Emotional

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