"It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on."
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"Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free."
"All depends on how determined we are to be successful."
"If a woman is determined, she will get what she wants because we are very determined creatures."
"Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events."
"Truth in science is always determined from observational facts."
"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."
"All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God."
"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."
"The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product."
"The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully."
"Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment."
"I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures"
"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."
"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."
"Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service."
"The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself."
"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."
"One choice can transform you!"
"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."