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"That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?"
"And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway."
"Income is primarily determined by your philosophy, not by the economy"
"We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it."
"when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because."
"Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears."
"Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness."
"The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed."
"Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have."
"I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of."
"Psychoanalysis , which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the relationship of the individual to society, must consider it a duty to participate in the investigation of sociological problems to the extent the human being or his/her psyche plays any part at all."
"Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly."
"Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy."
"A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs."
"My agent says, "You have an audition for the next Dustin Hoffman movie, playing a pioneer woman." And I go, "All right!" I passed Barry Levinson in the hall on the way into my audition, and I saw him do a double-take. I think I looked so determined that I got the job right then."
"I'm determined to stand whether God will deliver me or not."
"That there needed neither art nor science for going to GOD, but only a heart resolutely determined to apply itself to nothing but Him, or for His sake, and to love Him only."
"Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize."
"Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought."
"The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards."
