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• You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.

  Eben Moglen

  Memories, Technology, Order

  "Why Free Beer Isn’t So Good if your Data are Getting Drunk: How Free as in Freedom Businesses Help Prevent the Ultimate Privacy Catastrophe". MySQL Conference, www.softwarefreedom.org. 2007.

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• The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.

  Adam Gopnik

  Past, Listening, Might

  Adam Gopnik (2009). “Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life”, p.142, Vintage

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• We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

  Alfred Wegener

  Truth, Judging, Judgement

  Alfred Wegener (1966). “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

  Derek Prince

  Character, Achievement, Eternity

  Derek Prince (2012). “Rules of Engagement: Preparing for Your Role in the Spiritual Battle”, p.66, Baker Books

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• I used to hold a fiery wind
  and I tried to determine the direction
  where poetry would fly.

  Alda Merini

  Wind, Used, Fiery

  Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

  Ferdinand Christian Baur

  Ideas, Consciousness, Should

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• It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Kind, Situation

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram (p. 205), 1974.

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• If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? Find the source of your hesitation, and address it. You won't be able to move forward on the outside until you can move forward on the inside.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Past, Opportunity

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act.

  Eileen Claussen

  Moving, Climate, International

  "Impressions from National Academies Climate Summit" by Bill Chameides, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Self, People, Quality

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• In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?

  Wayne Muller

  Death, Powerful, Grief

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• When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don’t look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don’t focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success.

  Jon Gordon

  Believe, Optimism, Focus

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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• Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow.

  Jon Gordon

  Optimism, Today, Impossible Becomes Possible

  Jon Gordon (2014). “The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of course. Does the chemist ever measure the mass of an atom by measuring its acceleration in a given field of force? Yes. Does the physicist ever determine the strength of a field by measuring the acceleration of a known mass in that field? Certainly. Why then, should any one of these roles be singled out as the role of Newton's second law of motion? The fact is that it has a variety of roles.

  Brian Ellis

  Law, Acting, Body

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• From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the creative evolution of the fundamental structural plans is heavily burdened with hypothesis. This should appear as an epigraph to every book on evolution. The lack of direct evidence leads to the formulation of pure conjecture as to the genesis of the phyla; we do not even have a basis to determine the extent to which these opinions are correct.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Book, Creative, Fossils

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• Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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• Determine where you are going and how you will get there will become obvious.

  Marshall Sylver

  Where You Are, Where You Are Going, Obvious

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• What you do today will determine how you feel tomorrow.

  Marshall Sylver

  How You Feel, Today, Tomorrow

  Marshall Sylver (1995). “Passion Profit & Power”

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• We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with our thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself. You are not powerless. You are not without power.

  Little Crow

  Thinking, People, Our Actions

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• Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.

  Jack Parsons

  Dark, Men, Abuse

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• It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.

  Jim Rohn

  Your Future, Happens, Majors

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 01, 2009

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• The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them

  Noam Chomsky

  Fate, Decision, Influence

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• Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Past

  "No Longer Determined by Your Past". Interview, johnderuiter.com. July 1, 2014.

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• The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world.

  Debbie Ford

  Quality, Tunes, Each Day

  Debbie Ford (2009). “The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

  Napoleon Hill

  Jobs, Opportunity, Careers

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.65, Penguin

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