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• We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

  Jane D. Hull

  September 11, Events, Our Actions

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• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Nature, Freedom, Animal

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  America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

  Jane Addams

  Education, Children, Future

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• So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Long, Impossible

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• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Maturity, Years

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  Vaclav Havel

  Leadership, Powerful, Hero

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Noble, Adherence

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• I'm determined to be a diva.

  Lexa Doig

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• I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

  Christine Lahti

  Winning, Way, Fighter

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• I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Stars, Wind, Might

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• Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

  David Douglass

  Facts

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• There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

  Arthur Scargill

  Feelings, Unions, Size

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• Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

  Celia Green

  Requirements, Way, Done

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• Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Agreement, Matter, Fossils

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• Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

  Arthur Keith

  Discovery, Agriculture, Groups

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I'm a very determined person.

  Kim Basinger

  Persons

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• Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Chaos, Chaotic, Predictable

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• I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sacrifice, Taught Us, Lessons

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• It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Morning, Failure

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• The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are
  neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that
  those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will
  respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse
  for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to
  encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with
  greater confidence than an armed man.

  Cesare Beccaria

  Men, Gun, Law

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• When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Faith, Determination

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• Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it

  Drake

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

  Song: Successful, 2009

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• Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

  Ellen Raskin

  Life, Blow, Self

  Ellen Raskin (2004). “The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.42, Penguin

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• Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

  Jeff Corwin

  Fear, Believe, Fate

  Jeff Corwin (2009). “100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species”, p.15, Rodale

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• Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

  Jose Saramago

  Names, Soul, Nameless

  "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

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