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• Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Moving, Hands, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “Essays and Aphorisms”, p.119, Penguin UK

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• We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

  Don DeLillo

  Book, Media, Age

  "I don't know America anymore". Interview with Christoph Amend, Georg Diez, perival.com. October 11, 2007.

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• Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood.

  Ann Burton

  Stress, Sloth, Mood

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Attention, Pay

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Powerful, Order, Ideas

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• If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Able, Disposition

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• Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Motivation, Ambition

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.13, Moody Publishers

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• The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them.

  Steve McConnell

  Target, Purpose, Outcomes

  Steve McConnell (2006). “Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art”, p.54, Microsoft Press

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• When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.

  Jerry Savelle

  Storm, Strikes, Happens

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• The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

  Barney Frank

  Rights, People, Done

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• Momentum is whatever your attitude determines it to be.

  Lou Holtz

  Attitude, Momentum

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• ... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the organism can reproduce in the body and be transmitted from one individual to another, the most important experiment remains to be done....to determine the conditions necessary for growth and reproduction of the microorganism.

  Robert Koch

  Animal, Growth, Important

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• Our actions determine our dispositions.

  Aristotle

  Our Actions, Action, Disposition

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• If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

  John Calvin

  Fire, Gold, God With Us

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• Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

  Pamela Yates

  Destiny, Doe, Stories

  "Pamela Yates on Her New Documentary Used in Guatemalan Dictator Genocide Trial". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  People, Would Be, Want

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.

  Mark Shields

  Country, Believe, Trying

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• A life where bots tell us what to do every second - get up, go to work, do this, have kids with this person - is completely reasonable. Bots determine our economic opportunities; We have already accepted that. All the decision making would be done by bots and we wouldn't even notice.

  Daniel Suarez

  Kids, Opportunity, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The way we do small things determines the way we do EVERYTHING

  Robin Sharma

  Way, Small Things

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 29, 2015

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• The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Way

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.162, Pelican Publishing

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• We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.

  Otto Schily

  Military, War, Soldier

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• One's desire, not ability, determines success.

  Vince Lombardi

  Desire, Ability

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

  Wendell Berry

  World, Eating, Used

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.149, Counterpoint Press

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• Whether you respond to life or react to life determines how far you're gonna go in life.

  Zig Ziglar

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• I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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