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• I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live.

  Britney Spears

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If everyone in America agreed that 80 percent of their contributions for House, Senate, and president could only come from people making contributions of $100 or less, we'd have a pretty darn good system. The influence of money would be gone.

  Brian Williams

  America, People, House

  "Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), political roundtable". "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com.

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• I am sort of proud that I think radio has become a dominant influence in shaping public opinion. Good radio paints the picture for the audience. The audience has to be actively involved. Sometimes, in television, you can get lulled into sleep watching the picture, not listening to what you're hearing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sleep, Thinking, Listening

  "Transcript: Rush Limbaugh on 'Your World'". "Your World with Neil Cavuto,", Fox News Show, www.foxnews.com. February 9, 2006.

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• Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mirrors, Cheerful, Would Be

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.

  Sherman Alexie

  Doctors, People, Different

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• My own lov'd light,
  That very soft and solemn spirit worships,
  That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine,
  Whose influence o'er all tides of soul hath power,
  Who lend'st thy light to rapture and despair;
  The glow of hope and wan hue of sick fancy
  Alike reflect thy rays: alike thou lightest
  The path of meeting or of parting love--
  Alike on mingling or on breaking hearts
  Thou smil'st in throned beauty!

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Heart, Moon, Light

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• Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Spring, Moving, Fate

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• The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call good works.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Soul, Movement, Path

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.618, 1895.

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• There is one class of men who from time to time have taken a keen and practical interest in the constitution of the Family, and they are the Statesmen. They have realized how intimately the welfare of the State depends upon the influence and nature of the Families from which it is constituted; and they have endeavoured that the State in turn should mould and influence the Family to its own purposes.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Taken, Men, Class

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• In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign resources existing in our expected sphere of influence, such as Sakhalim, China, and the Southern Pacific.

  Sadao Araki

  Order, Southern, Sphere Of Influence

  "Carriers in Combat: The Air War at Sea" by Chester G. Hearn, (p. 43), 2007.

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• Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.

  Sadao Araki

  Destiny, Thinking, Japan

  "World War II almanac" by Robert Goralski (p. 9), 1981.

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• Religion is the biggest influence on the intellect and the decadence of a people.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  People, Decadence, Intellect

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.

  African Spir

  War, Men, Alcohol

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 48), 1937.

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• It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.

  Susan Fenimore Cooper

  Life And Death, Peculiar, Mastery

  Susan Fenimore Cooper (1998). “Rural Hours”, p.126, University of Georgia Press

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• Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

  Horace

  Fall, Grief, Passion

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

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• Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.

  Carl Jung

  Running, Spiritual, Real

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.16, Routledge

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• THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Buyers

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.273, Princeton University Press

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• For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

  William Butler Yeats

  Struggle, Writing, World

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Design, Example

  "The Panda's Thumb". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Double Trouble", pp. 38-40, 1980.

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• We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of these genes ( enzymes and proteins ) as they influence the course of embryology . In so doing we have made the astounding discovery that all complex animal phyla - arthropods and vertebrates in particular - have retained, despite their half-billion years of evolutionary independence, an extensive set of common genetic blueprints for building bodies.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Animal, Discovery, Years

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Leonardo's Mountain Of Clams”, p.283, Random House

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• The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.

  Charles Dickens

  Spiritual, Attitude, Taken

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• It has long been observed, that an atheist has no just reason for endeavouring conversions; and yet none harass those minds which they can influence, with more importunity of solicitation to adopt their opinions. In proportion as they doubt the truth of their own doctrines, they are desirous to gain the attestation of another understanding: and industriously labour to win a proselyte, and eagerly catch at the slightest pretense to dignify their sect with a distinguished name.

  Samuel Johnson

  Atheist, Winning, Names

  Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.40

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• To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet unborn; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man.

  Albert Pike

  Kings, Destiny, Men

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.

  Quentin Crisp

  Children, Father, Order

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 26, 1968.

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