Determined Quotes - Page 40

• President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo.

  David Letterman

  Reading, August, President

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• The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.

  Henry David Thoreau

  United States, Slavery, Four

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

  George C. Homans

  Running, Long, People

  1974 Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms (rev edn).

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• I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Girl, Mother, School

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• We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

  Christina Baldwin

  Peace, Responsibility, Names

  Christina Baldwin (2009). “Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture”, p.22, Bantam

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• (Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.

  Nellie Fox

  Baseball, Powerful, Practice

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• Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner determined by the occupied population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Army, Rights

  "How can America get out of Iraq?" by Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Schell, Howard Zinn and William Polk, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2004.

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• I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Needs, Kind

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• Now, there is something else interesting here, is this thing called self-determinism and pan-determinism. We have found that there is something stands as a barrier between the ability of a person to be self-determined and the condition he is in, and that is willingness to be controlled. As long as a person will resist control, then everything that comes along which threatens to control him can do so; and thus you have aberration. And until he has a total tolerance of control, he cannot be self-determined or pan-determined.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Self, Interesting, Long

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• Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Age, Measurement, Size

  "At ease: stories I tell to friends" by Dwight David Eisenhower, (p. 389), 1967.

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• I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  States, Mississippi, I Am Determined

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• The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Equations

  "Magick Book IV : Liber ABA". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1929.

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• This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for itto change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

  Augustus Napier

  Men, Parent, Style

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• I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.

  Carolina Kostner

  Justice, Bitter, Not Happy

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• Yesterday's dust
  determined
  today's range of vision

  Mario

  Dust, Yesterday, Vision

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• It's good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you'll get there, not because you're destined to, but because you're determined to.

  Steve Goodier

  Encouraging, Perseverance, May

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• You cannot keep determined people for success.

  Mary Kay Ash

  People

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• Working as a lawyer, you have a lot of pressure. But if you go crazy, you are not going to get anything done! When I am under pressure, I am the most determined person in the world. I function very well.

  Julie King

  Crazy, Pressure, Done

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• In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Countries Of The World, Important

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would be hard to sit at a desk all day, and then come to sit at another desk. Also, it helps to abandon hope. If I sit at my computer, determined to write a New Yorker story I won't get beyond the first sentence. It's better to put no pressure on it. What would happen if I followed the previous sentence with this one, I'll think. If the eighth draft is torture, the first should be fun. At least if you're writing humor.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Jobs, Fun

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• The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate. Long-term interest rates are determined largely by global financial markets.

  Mario Draghi

  Keys, Long, Financial

  "Draghi Defends Euro Rescue Policies". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. January 02, 2014.

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• Your value in life is determined by the problems you solve through your gift.

  Myles Munroe

  Life Is, Problem, Value Of Life

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• "Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.

  Curtis Jackson

  Struggle, Mean, Class

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• Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Love Freedom

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. April 2007.

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• The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, Degrees

  "Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social-Cognitive Theory". Book by Albert Bandura, www.uky.edu. 1986.

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