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• Purpose should determine approach.  At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

  Andy Stanley

  The End Of The Day, Purpose, Reputation

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.94, Zondervan

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• Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they'll determine 80 percent of your success.

  Barbara Corcoran

  People, Percent, Picks

  Twitter post from Jun 3, 2017

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• Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Law, Two

  Lapham's Quarterly, Alexander Hamilton, Ezra Pound, Richard Hofstadter, Thomas Jefferson (2016). “Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue”, p.124, Pronoun

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• What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

  Rob Bell

  Believe, Future, Shapes

  Twitter post from Sep 04, 2012

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• Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals and plans are meaningless if they cannot be executed successfully!

  Gary Ryan

  Jobs, Goal, Done

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• Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.

  Peter Senge

  Glasses, Vision, Framing

  Peter Senge (2012). “Schools That Learn (updated and revised second edition): A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education”, p.100, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

  Steven Saylor

  Believe, Reality, Men

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• Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men

  "Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre". Book by Walter Kaufmann, 1956.

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• Age is just a number, and agelessness means not buying into the idea that a number determines everything from your state of health to your attractiveness to your value.

  Christiane Northrup

  Mean, Ideas, Numbers

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• The voice you believe will determine the future you experience

  Steven Furtick

  God, Faith, Christian

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.24, Multnomah

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• During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Two, Priorities, United

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834). “Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.151

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• To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills.

  George Steiner

  Art, Skills, Degrees

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed. This right must be considered as an ingredient in the original composition of the general government, which, though not expressed, was mutually understood. . .

  William Rawle

  Government, People, Political

  William Rawle (1829). “A view of the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.296

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• Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Inspirational, Choices, Saying Yes

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• Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular firm, because these are essentially unknowable, but whether people will think you have done well to get the job there, that determines you choice. That was largely it in my case. It was really the prestige. They gave good letterhead.

  Elliot Perlman

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Elliot Perlman (1999). “The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life. To me, this is where the gospel can be the greatest of help to us. The power of the Holy Ghost is the greatest source of strength and comfort we can have in our lives. The Holy Ghost will not only help us in times of need, but will help us to gain a firm testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ, thereby preparing us for life.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Success, Jesus

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• It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

  Peter Høeg

  Karma, Lying, Differences

  Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.59, Random House

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• The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

  Igor Babailov

  Artist, Class, Skills

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• Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.

  Robert Reynolds

  Successful, Doe, Matter

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• The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Art, Real, Book

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• It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.

  Aristotle

  Should Have, Easy, Should

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.393, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types, immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being, is no vice.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Doubt, Liberty

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 44), 2013.

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• Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny.

  Paul Tillich

  Destiny, Strange, Given

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.185, University of Chicago Press

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• The noise you hear after people see something you do - whether it's a TV show or a movie - that always makes you see that thing slightly differently. Without question. The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. And test-screening a movie can be helpful too. But the part that can be dangerous is when you take those notes as gospel, instead of taking them with a grain of salt. The key is to use the response as one of the tools in your box, as opposed to using it to determine what you do.

  J. J. Abrams

  Tv Shows, Keys, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 2, 2008.

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• It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Practice, Class

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1849). “The North American Review”, p.212

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