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Calvin Coolidge Politician
Determination

"It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means."

War Peace Determination
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Determination

"If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away? I don't think we can say whether it's precisely, scientifically historical."

Thinking Sacrifice Determination
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Determination

"There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct."

Play Business Determination
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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
Determination

"But it does take the determination that you're going to put your thoughts upon something that does feel good. And so, here we're going to make a very bold statement: any disease could be healed in a matter of days, any disease, if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate - and the healing time is about how much mix-up there is in all of that."

Healing Determination Feel Good
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Dan Wells Author
Determination

"Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we finally fall, let it be because our enemies finally beat us, not because we beat ourselves."

Fall Responsibility Determination
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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
Determination

"I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills."

Hands Skills Determination
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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author
Determination

"It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England."

People Country Determination
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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Determination

"In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself."

Children Ignorance Determination
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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
Determination

"And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience."

Believe Giving Determination
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Don King Promoter
Determination

"If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules."

Men Determination Frustration
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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Determination

"I just build and build more yall niggas build and destroy"

Determination
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Military Leader, Politician
Determination

"The winning of war - the effectiveness in such things - is in the heart, in the determination, in the faith. It is in our beliefs in our country, in our God, everything that goes to make up America."

Country War Determination
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Charles Dickens Novelist
Determination

"Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged."

Character Interesting Determination
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Charles Dickens Novelist
Determination

"what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been"

Mother Father Determination
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Christopher Explorer
Determination

"We all have powers within us that we don't know exist until we're tested. There are no limitations to what you can do if you have the determination."

Knows Determination Can Do
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Coco Chanel Fashion Designer
Determination

"After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda."

Fashion Events Determination
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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
Determination

"There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be happy; it needs the desire for knowledge and the determination to eschew pleasant myths; it needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness."

Faith Compassion Determination
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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher
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"One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it has to be shaken into people's understanding and determination."

Thinking Impact Determination
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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher
Determination

"[The] USA has been immensely successful in making the determination to deal with terrorism [as] a factor in the global world and, similarly, if it took a similar interest in education, it could make a difference."

Successful Determination Usa
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