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• Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Spring, Moving, Fate

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• Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Wish, Demand, Facts

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Children, School, Sunday

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.572, 1895.

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• The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.

  John Haggai

  Leadership, Optimistic, Intuition

  John Edmund Haggai (1986). “Lead on!: leadership that endures in a changing world”, W Publishing Group

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• The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Soul, Movement, Path

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.618, 1895.

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• There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of the Family, and they are the Statesmen. They have realized how intimately the welfare of the State depends upon the influence and nature of the Families from which it is constituted; and they have endeavoured that the State in turn should mould and influence the Family to its own purposes.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Taken, Men, Class

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• The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.

  Patrick Shade

  Weather, Agency, Growth

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• In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.

  Sadao Araki

  Order, Southern, Sphere Of Influence

  "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" by Chester G. Hearn, (p. 43), 2007.

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• Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.

  Sadao Araki

  Destiny, Thinking, Japan

  "World War II almanac" by Robert Goralski (p. 9), 1981.

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• While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its human factors, the vast majority of human factors studies concern the surface of hardware (keyboards, screens) or the very surface of the software (command names, menu formats).

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Names, Profound, Quality

  "Ease of use: a system design challenge" by L.M. Branscomb and J.C. Thomas, IBM Systems Journal. Vol 23.3, September 1984.

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• Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  People, Decadence, Intellect

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.

  African Spir

  War, Men, Alcohol

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.

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• Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit.

  African Spir

  Selfish, Compassion, Men

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 57), 1937.

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• It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.

  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Life And Death, Peculiar, Mastery

  Susan Fenimore Cooper (1998). “Rural Hours”, p.126, University of Georgia Press

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• The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Body, Earth, Spirit

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.313, Penguin

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• When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

  O.R. Melling

  Children, Book, Writing

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• The void holds a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that void is filled with a form of power/energy which adapts itself to the nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and influences us, in natural ways, to transmute our thoughts into their physical equivalent.

  Napoleon Hill

  Moving, Mind, Way

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• I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'

  Albert Brooks

  Kings, Taken, Silence

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• If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

  Wesley Snipes

  Art, Strong, Likes

  "Wesley Snipes: The Wisdom of Wesley". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 1998.

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• It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

  Horace

  Grapes, Cato, Said

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• Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

  Horace

  Art, Powerful, Wine

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• The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Keys, Delight, Common

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.215, Harvard University Press

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• It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Mind, Religion

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• It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish and abound. For the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest though not the purest motive to virtue. The privations of poverty render us too cold and callous, and the privileges of property too arrogant and confidential, to feel; the first places us beneath the influence of opinion--the second, above it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Class, Feelings

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• It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Fit, Maxims

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