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• The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.

  Hannah Arendt

  Long, History, Duration

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Money buys access; access buys influence.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Access

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• To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence.

  Karen Horney

  Faces, Bears, May

  Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.27, Routledge

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• What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

  Joe Paterno

  Teacher, Nfl, Educator

  Speech to high school coaches, Hershey, Pennsylvania, www.today.com. February 5, 1993.

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• 'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

  Alan Blinder

  Law, Economics, Economist

  "New ball game, same old team" by Faisal Islam, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2004.

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• The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

  Paul Caponigro

  Photographer, Mystery

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• Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are present and at what time and what really serves the deeper process that is constantly running like a stream underground. Influence is incessant. Influence is a fact. But, carry a big shovel and dig constantly to clear away all the unessentials so that the origins of mystery and the poetic force of life can get into and inspire the work.

  Paul Caponigro

  Running, Art, Inspire

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• By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.

  John Evelyn

  Food, Cooking, Quality

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• People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Trying, Honest

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.

  David Shapiro

  Believe, Thinking, Cameras

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

  Lawrence Lessig

  Issues, People, Moral

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• [Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

  George Wendt

  Leader, Trying, Reluctant

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

  Shawn Achor

  Individual Choice, Giving, Choices

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience. That's not to say all the songs are biographical, because sometimes it's what I've seen in others' lives.

  Holly Golightly

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

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• I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

  Brantley Gilbert

  Thinking, Records, Wells

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• My dad was a huge basketball influence in my life on and off the court. Playing for him and having him around, having him push me harder than maybe another coach would have was a huge blessing for me. Getting to play with my brother was an unreal experience at Oklahoma, in college, it's some of the funnest times I've had in basketball, and I'll cherish those memories forever.

  Blake Griffin

  Basketball, Brother, Memories

  Source: www.slamonlineph.com

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• If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.

  Robert Kennedy

  Exercise, Blow, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.

  Richard Rohr

  Knowing, Abuse, Events

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who had the most influence on my playing. I saw him through a window playing piano and I thought it was unbelievable somebody could move their fingers that fast. And this is how I got interested in piano.

  Ike Turner

  Moving, Kids, Boys

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• An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

  Laurence Sterne

  Inward, Sincerity, Absence

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.730

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• New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, New York, Exercise

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• Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Southern, Literature, Slavery

  George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”

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• Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

  Henry George

  Flames, Ideas, Torches

  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Epic, Water, Soul

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195

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• Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Favors, May

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