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• Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Anchorman, Jesus, Block

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

  Oswald Mosley

  People, Movement, World

  Oswald Mosley (2012). “My Life - Oswald Mosley”, p.298, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

  Mary Schmich

  Dream, New York, Coffee

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• We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  College, America, Democracy

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• Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have.

  Dan Miller

  Ability, Wells, Security

  Dan Miller (2010). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.164, B&H Publishing Group

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• Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  School, Government, Patterns

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• One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Animal, Elephants, Sick

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• Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Inspire, Bed

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2015

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• Our behaviour as an athlete is often determined by our previous experiences and how we dealt with those experiences. It is these experiences from past performances that can often shape what will happen in the future. It is for this reason that you learn and move on to be more mentally stronger as both an athlete and as a human!

  David Horne

  Moving, Athlete, Past

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• You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.

  Ralph Bunche

  Hard Work, Persistence, Path

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• I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Heart, Persistence, Fire

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• There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Failure, Men, Unconquerable Will

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Past, Astrology, Action

  Dave DeLuca, Swami Vivekananda (2006). “Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God”, p.38, New World Library

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• We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.

  Thomas Berry

  Moving, Creativity, Appreciate

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• The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate, and their net worth will be determined by what grows out of it.

  Joey Reiman

  Real, Creativity, Gray Matter

  Joey Reiman (2001). “Thinking for a Living: Creating Ideas That Revitalize Your Business, Career, and Life”, p.48, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Work and Its Secret”, p.12, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Lessons

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.480, Manonmani Publishers

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• Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

  Chuck Eddy

  Growing Up, Divorce, White

  Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.205, Duke University Press

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• The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Emotional, Age, Awakening

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• I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

  Will Rogers

  Mother, Wisdom, Elephants

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.25, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Running, Long

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• And now the matchless deed's achieved, Determined, Dared, and Done.

  Christopher Smart

  Achievement, Done, Deeds

  'A Song to David' (1763) st. 85

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• Opportunities, creative ideas or the lack of them, happiness, frustration, brilliance, talent, success and failure - all are determined by the state of mind that you're in.

  Frederick Lenz

  Frustration, Opportunity, Ideas

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• ...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Shoes, Mind

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• I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Hands, Wife

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.340, Grove Press

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