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• A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Causes, Chance

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• I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

  Charlie Rose

  Animal, Kingdoms, Willing

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• There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Art, Government, Literature

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

  e. e. cummings

  Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

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• Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Differences, Principles

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.31

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• Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.

  Roger Caillois

  Dream, Reflection, Assuming

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• It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

  John Lewis Gaddis

  Vision, Starting, Hopes And Fears

  John Lewis Gaddis (2006). “The Cold War: A New History”, p.10, Penguin

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• You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.

  Eben Moglen

  Memories, Technology, Order

  "Why Free Beer Isn’t So Good if your Data are Getting Drunk: How Free as in Freedom Businesses Help Prevent the Ultimate Privacy Catastrophe". MySQL Conference, www.softwarefreedom.org. 2007.

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• The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.

  Adam Gopnik

  Past, Listening, Might

  Adam Gopnik (2009). “Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life”, p.142, Vintage

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• We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

  Alfred Wegener

  Truth, Judging, Judgement

  Alfred Wegener (1966). “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

  Derek Prince

  Character, Achievement, Eternity

  Derek Prince (2012). “Rules of Engagement: Preparing for Your Role in the Spiritual Battle”, p.66, Baker Books

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• I used to hold a fiery wind
  and I tried to determine the direction
  where poetry would fly.

  Alda Merini

  Wind, Used, Fiery

  Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

  Ferdinand Christian Baur

  Ideas, Consciousness, Should

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• It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Kind, Situation

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram (p. 205), 1974.

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• Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

  Nora Roberts

  Luck, Bad Luck

  Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.309, Penguin

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• Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love You, Enemy, Who You Are

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• The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.

  James H. Austin

  Happy, Spiritual, Attitude

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.13, MIT Press

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• How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.

  Chris Prentiss

  Path

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.228, BookBaby

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• Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.

  Joan Bennett Kennedy

  Thinking, Careers, Achievement

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• We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Reality, World, Shapes

  Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Two Women in One”, p.26, Saqi

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• ... I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Appreciation, Caring, Organization

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• Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Wish, Demand, Facts

  "The Economics of Welfare". Book by Arthur Cecil Pigou (4th edition, 1932), Ch. 1 : Welfare and Economic Welfare, § 4, 1920.

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• Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Today, Teach, Approach

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• We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way.

  David Wolfe

  Different, Filters, World

  David Wolfe (2012). “The Sunfood Diet Success System”, p.50, North Atlantic Books

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• Do not determine to change your life eventually. If you have decided to change your life, it is already changing.

  Gwen Davis

  Change, Changing Your Life, Decided

  Gwen Davis (1976). “How to survive in suburbia when your heart's in the Himalayas”

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