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"He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one."
"Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it."
"The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions."
"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts."
"Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'."
"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal."
"Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it."
"Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life."
"A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation."
"The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets."
"Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus."
"I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live."
"Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!"
"The usages and methods of warfare are thus determined by changing circumstances and, therefore, they themselves can in nowise be eternal."
"I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish."
"What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew."
"[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations."
"It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten.""
"I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance."