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Dwight D. Eisenhower Military Leader, Politician
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"The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators."

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Bruce Dickinson Musician, Author, Pilot
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"If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment."

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating."

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it."

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Coco Chanel Fashion Designer
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"Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him."

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