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• Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Consciousness, Life Is

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic, and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Religious, Patriotic, Law

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• The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

  T. S. Eliot

  Greatness, Literature, Remember

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Essays Ancient and Modern”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Character, Personality, Encounters

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what is right. They have a quality about them that reminds me of the beatitudes. They are living examples that Jesus' promise is true: they have ben hungry and thirsty for righteousness and they have been satisfied. They are determined, patient people who believe in life and who give strength to others. They have given me more love and hope and strength than they will ever know.

  Cesar Chavez

  Jesus, Believe, Sacrifice

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• The quality of life is determined by its activities.

  Aristotle

  Life, Quality, Existence

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Prayer

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.32, Princeton University Press

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• A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.

  Herbert Spencer

  Military, Character, Belief

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.182

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• A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Cat, Pockets, Want

  Dr. louis J. Camuti, Marilyn Frankel, Haskel Frankel (1985). “All My Patients are Under the Bed”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Hot, Tin

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• I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Once you are crystal clear about the intended end result that you seek to produce, all the ways that it can become a done deal start to reveal themselves to you. There are many who have accomplished exactly what you want to achieve and could show you the way. You are not ready to ask them because you are not clear and you have not determined which questions need answers.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Answers, Want

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• Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

  Richard Koch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.127, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

  Edgar Magnin

  Deeds, Emotion, Fine

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• Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against those who would destroy the freedoms we cherish. We are determined to achieve an enduring peace - a peace with liberty and with honor. This determination, this resolve, is the highest tribute we can pay to the many who have fallen in the service of our Nation.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Determination, Community

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.384, Best Books on

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• For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Determination, Opportunity, Desire

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• The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Humanity, Spirit, Ends

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• What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

  Learned Hand

  Government, Different Faces, Political

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Light, Government, Liberty

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• If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Confidence, Perseverance, Law

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.

  David McCullough

  Death, Men, Cowardice

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• If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Science, Law, Brain

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• The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Science, Engineering, Perfect

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• In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.

  James Bryant Conant

  Country, Educational, Science

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• The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from the characteristics of the separate pieces, but conversely; what happens to a part of the whole is, in clearcut cases, determined by the laws of the inner structure of its whole.

  Max Wertheimer

  Science, Law, Pieces

  "Productive thinking". Book by Max Wertheimer, p. 84, 1959.

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