"Freedom is self-determination."
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"You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession."
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"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop."
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"The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it."
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"Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein."
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"I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness."
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"Fortune befriends the bold."
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"The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination."
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"It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory."
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"Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism."
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"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
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"She doesn't ever worry, if she wants it she'll get it on her own"
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"For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society."
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"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit."
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"The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already."
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"If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined."
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"We all got dreams and we all star reaching"
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"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment."
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"The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not."
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"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way."
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