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• If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Girl, Religious, Boys

  Ruhollah Khomeini's speech on the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, World Service, October 26, 1964.

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• Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.

  William Mountford

  Nature, Clouds, Earth

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.155

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• There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence over government patronage. Legislation is required to establish the reform. No proper legislation is to be expected as long as members of Congress are engaged in procuring offices for their constituents.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Government, Long, Office

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, February 14, 1879.

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• Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, Musician, Culture

  "Women in Music: Lady Gaga". Interview with Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 12, 2009.

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• I do believe in what I call the stewardship of influence as well as the stewardship of affluence. And that is you use whatever God gives you not for your own benefit, but use it to help people who have no benefit. And when you use whatever God gives you, he gives you more of it. When you use it well, he gives you more of it.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.

  Tony Robbins

  Giving, People, Trying

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.

  Kendrick Lamar

  War, Opposites, Two

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

  Ron Dart

  Education, Teacher, Lying

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• Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?

  John Angell James

  Men, Ideas, Passionate

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• We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

  Oliver Lodge

  Communication, Character, Determined

  Sir Oliver Lodge (2016). “Raymond Or Life And Death”, p.80, Read Books Ltd

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• Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

  Ken Danby

  Artist, Emulation, Development

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• It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.

  A. Y. Jackson

  Men, Drawing, Insanity

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• Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.

  Ernest West Basden

  Art, Emotional, Careers

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• Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.

  Guido Molinari

  Music, Art, Listening

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• Neuroplasticity contributes to both the constrained and unconstrained aspects of our nature. It renders our brains not only more resourceful, but also more vulnerable to outside influences.

  Norman Doidge

  Brain, Neuroplasticity, Vulnerable

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• I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn't something I have any influence over, so there isn't any point in worrying about it.

  Peter Doig

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it.

  Peter Doig

  Feelings, Wish, Way

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• The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.

  Leonard Shlain

  Art, Book, Profound

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• My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?

  Masa Takayama

  Jobs, Simple, Thinking

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• I'm against very wealthy ­people attempting to or influencing elections. But as long as it's doable I'm going to do it.

  Sheldon Adelson

  Long, People, Election

  "Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Says He Might Give $100M To Newt Gingrich Or Other Republican". Interview with Steven Bertoni, www.forbes.com. February 21, 2012.

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• So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.

  Ossian Everett Mills

  Inspirational, Brother, Selfish

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• Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.

  Ricardo Semler

  Strong, Bills, Firsts

  "Ricardo Semler, Semco SA". Interview with CNN, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory, natural science and the scientific spirit.

  Robert Briffault

  Islamic, Growth, Victory

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• The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and … most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood.

  Madison Grant

  Real, Blood, White

  Madison Grant (2013). “The Conquest of a Continent”, p.298, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture. Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas.

  Henry Petroski

  Appreciation, Book, Reading

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