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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

Earl Browder

Eugenics, Socialism, Made

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Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is. What you mean when you do a thing will always determine the outcome. The law creates the world.

Brenna Yovanoff

Powerful, Mean, Law

Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.

C. Lloyd Morgan

Exercise, Animal, Psychology

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If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

Elon Musk

Inspirational, Important, Trying

"Tesla And SpaceX: Elon Musk’s Industrial Empire". "Fast Cars and Rocket Ships" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. March 30, 2014.

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The scoreline didn't really reflect the outcome

Tony Gubba

Soccer, Football, Commentators

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We all travel different roads to our ultimate destinations. For some of us the path is rockier than for others. But no one reaches the end without feeling some form of adversity. So rather than fight it, why not accept it as the way of life? Why not detach yourself from the outcomes and simply experience every circumstance that enters your life to the fullest?

Robin Sharma

Adversity, Fighting, Feelings

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Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

Paul Shepard

Horse, Men, Years

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First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.

Wayne Dyer

Regret, Risk, Path

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If optimism is important, it's because many outcomes are determined by how much of it we bring to the task. It is an important ingredient of success. This flies in the face of the elite view that talent is the primary requirement of a good life, but in many cases the difference between success and failure is determined by nothing more than our sense of what is possible and the energy we can muster to convince others of our due. We might be doomed not by a lack of skill, but by an absence of hope!

Alain de Botton

Good Life, Views, Skills

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No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

Douglas Hurd

Military, War, Successful

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Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are. Any number of arbitrarily small perturbations along the way could have made the world as we know it turn out very differently.

Paul Romer

Wisdom, Numbers, Special

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The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.

Tyler Cowen

Fire, Flavor, World

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Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.

Tom Shadyac

Letting Go, Swim, Needs

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A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

Katie Salen

Player, Games, Conflict

Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman (2004). “Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals”, p.60, MIT Press

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Gamers co-author the games they play by the choices they make and how they choose to solve problems, since what they do can affect the course and sometimes the outcome of the game.

James Paul Gee

Games, Play, Choices

"10 Truths About Books and What They Have to Do With Video Games" by James Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2011.

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We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

Bryan Stevenson

Motivation, Inspiration, Justice

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A review of seventy-four clinical trials of antidepressants, for example, found that thirty-seven of thirty-eight positive studies [that praised the drugs] were published. But of the thirty-six negative studies, thirty-three were either not published or published in a form that conveyed a positive outcome.

Marcia Angell

Eight, Drug, Negative

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If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

Abraham Lincoln

Lying, Might, Making Time

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Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a young age you can really change a life. There are a lot of studies that show that one act of kindness to these children has a 40% chance of making that child have a completely different outcome in their life. What you hope is that you can get a kid to believe in something and to believe in themselves.

Walter Payton

Children, Kindness, Believe

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There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations and predispositions of federal judges. The outcome should instead depend on the commitments and beliefs of the President and those who operate under him.

Cass Sunstein

Believe, Commitment, Law

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A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge

George Gilder

Zero, Yield, Order

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Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparation, where the trip was presented as a learning experience and a process of self-discovery. They all took place in safe, supportive environments. They generally did not fit the stereotypical model of teenagers dropping acid at a rock concert, looking for awesome visuals and good vibes.

Rick Doblin

Powerful, Teenager, Dropping Acid

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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

Warren Farrell

Confused, Opportunity, Feminist

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It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

William Woodruff

Law, World, Morality

William Woodruff (1998). “A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present”, p.1, Springer

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Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way.

Neale Donald Walsch

Way, Moments, Minutes

FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Jan 23, 2015

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