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• How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

  Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

  Judging, World, Judgment

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• Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

  Bob Wise

  Wise, Teacher, Children

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• Your level of gratitude determines your level of happiness, as well as your potential for success. It's difficult to be happy without gratitude.

  Bob Burg

  Gratitude, Attitude, Bad Day

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• Who you become today will determine what you are capable of creating tomorrow.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Creating, Today

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• Through the good times and bad, the quality of your relationships will ultimately determine the quality of your life. So be grateful for your loved ones and focus on adding as much value to their lives as you possibly can.

  Hal Elrod

  Gratitude, Grateful, Focus

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Feb 17, 2013

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• It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Thinking, Play, Age

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.59

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• Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Consumerism, Overconsumption, True Worth

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• The more deeply I search for the roots of the global environmental crisis, the more I am convinced that it is an outer manifestation of an inner crisis that is, for lack of a better word, spiritual... what other word describes the collection of values and assumptions that determine our basic understanding of how we fit into the universe?

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Roots, Understanding

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.12, Routledge

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• Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will determine your allotment of presents. That's a very exoteric understanding of reincarnation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Track, Understanding

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• When you die in this life, you might be experiencing pain, but the structure of your perceptual field will determine your next lifetime. That structure has been determined by the way you have led this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Might, Way

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• At the time of death, whatever you have focused on the most will determine your next life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Next, Rebirth, Focused

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• Watch your habits, they determine your character.

  Winston Churchill

  Character, Watches, Habit

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• Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

  William Shakespeare

  Chance, Planning, Exposure

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Lear. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus. Macbeth. Coriolanus”, p.362

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• The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

  Henri Matisse

  Peculiar, Harmony, Invention

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1973). “Matisse on art”

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• The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.

  Henri Matisse

  Writing, Use, Would Be

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• It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible.

  Georges Braque

  Creativity, Mean, Giving

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• Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.

  Ayn Rand

  Work, Pride, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.23, Penguin

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• It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Animal, Quality, Elements

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• Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Cybernetics, Psycho Cybernetics, Happens

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• Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to determine just what that series shall be?

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Life Is, Habit

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “What All the World's A-Seeking”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Mind, Machines

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.80, Lulu.com

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• It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Students, Ability

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Wisdom, Emotional

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational Life, Lists, Thinker

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Risk

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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