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• A commander should have a profound understanding of human nature, the knack of smoothing out troubles, the power of winning affection while communicating energy, and the capacity for ruthless determination where require by circumstances. He needs to generate an electrifying current, and to keep a cool head in applying it.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Winning, Should Have, Profound

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• Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten....America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness-justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Greatness, America

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• Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and a born captain. He is not the media's blue eyed boy because he is a very straightforward person, who never minces his words, instead he talks in a no nonsense manner to the press. He shares an extremely healthy rapport with his teammates. His leadership skills are also vouched for by the youngsters in the team. He has phenomenal brand value. He's the new-age Indian, an aggressive go-getter, full of self-belief, determination.

  Ravi Shastri

  Team, Boys, Skills

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• It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory.

  Teresa of Avila

  Strong, Perfect, Tears

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• Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.

  George W. Bush

  Crush, Rogues, World

  "Ivins: Beyond the pale" by Molly Ivins, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2006.

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• There is an enormous difference between growing old in the Lord and growing up in Him. One is automatic and requires no effort at all ... just aging. But the other is never automatic, or easy. It calls for personal discipline, continual determination, and spiritual desire. Churches are full of sleepy saints who are merely 'logging time' in God's family.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Differences

  Charles R. Swindoll (1986). “Growing Up in God's Family: Bible Study Guide”

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• Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Passion, Justice

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• Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Ordinary, Extras

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• War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

  Herman Melville

  War, Monsoons, Should

  Herman Melville (2016). “Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile and Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter”, p.68, Courier Dover Publications

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• By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way we get things done in America. One man tells another, does what he can, till the sum of these efforts grows into a national aspiration-a precious goal. Then occurs our miracle of democracy: because the groundwork has been surely laid, the goal is already within our grasp.

  Newton B. Drury

  Moving, Men, America

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• We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?

  Edward James Olmos

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Zero

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• My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Self, Practice, Principles

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• There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.

  Julian Assange

  Unity, Oppression, Response

  "Julian Assange urges US to end 'war on whistleblowers'". www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2012.

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• Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Moving, Opportunity

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.

  Frederick Douglass

  Past, Thinking, Desire

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• It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear.

  Pema Chodron

  Commitment, Opportunity, Trying

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• Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Holiness, Path

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• An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Opinion, Preservation, Method

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

  J. C. Ryle

  Believe, Practice, Honest

  "Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew".

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• There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.

  J. I. Packer

  Discovery, Knowing, Relief

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Feelings, Doe, Cost

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.115, HarperCollins UK

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• We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Regret, Moving, Heart

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• The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

  John Cheever

  Light, Looks, Moral

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

  Norman Cousins

  Connections, Purpose, States

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• His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should give us, for He can rightly tell us that we don't know what we're asking for (cf. Mt. 20:22). The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer ? and don't forget this, because it's very important ? should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every possible effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Prayer, Cfs

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