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• The needs of a society determine its ethics.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Needs, Caged Birds

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.173, Modern Library

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• The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, People, Office

  1920 Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

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• There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In these divine moments key men and women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing.

  Lou Engle

  Spring, Men, Keys

  James W. Goll, Lou Engle (2011). “The Call of the Elijah Revolution”, p.101, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it.

  Kate Chopin

  Sex, Character, Thinking

  Kate Chopin (2000). “The Awakening and Other Stories: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.315, Modern Library

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• The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

  Earl Browder

  Organization, Political, Development

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• Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.124, Harper Collins

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• Pennsylvania is facing challenging economic times, a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, and negative cash flow projections. My Budget Deficit and Fiscal Stabilization Task Force will get to work to determine the scope of the challenges facing Pennsylvania and begin to discuss how we can get Pennsylvania's fiscal house in order.

  Tom Wolf

  Cash Flow, Order, House

  FaceBook post by Tom Wolf from Nov 26, 2014

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• Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

  John William Draper

  Science, Thieves, Kepler

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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• For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control over his culture than his race. That's a racist idea, but it's politically correct racism. It says that one's convictions, character and values are not determined by personal judgment and choices but genetically determined. In other words, as yesteryear's racists held: race determines identity.

  Walter E. Williams

  Art, Character, Race

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• How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Stories, Social Media, Wells

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• Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

  Frank Chodorov

  Art, Law, Society

  Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

  Marcia Angell

  Illness And Death, Patient, Approach

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• Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only determine the worth.

  Immanuel Hermann Fichte

  Self, Action, Emotion

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• As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.

  George Eliot

  Feet, Light, Soldier

  "Scenes of Clerical Life".

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• There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.

  Patti LaBelle

  Character, Winning, Doors

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• Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Giving, Warning

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• Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

  Walker Percy

  Discovery, May, Way

  Walker Percy (1988). “The moviegoer”

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• The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.

  Jim Rohn

  Blow, Opportunity, Wind

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• We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

  John F. Kennedy

  Interest, Term, Policy

  Speech at the Mormon Tabernacle, delivered 26 September 1963, Salt Lake City, Utah

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• One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Trying, Politician

  Gore Vidal (1999). “The Essential Gore Vidal”, Random House Incorporated

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• Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, African American, Black

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• For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Views, Years, Twenties

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.6, Random House

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• Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it?

  Mark Zandi

  Home, Two, Choices

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• ... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

  Billy Graham

  Death, Views, Degrees

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Mean, Men, Law

  "United States v. United Mine Workers, 330 U.S. 258". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 6, 1947.

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