"Love has no great influences upon the sum of life."
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"When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before."
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"The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?"
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"You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?"
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"Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me."
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"I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence."
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"You can't influence somebody when you're judging them."
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"The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other."
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"My body was braille for the creeping influences."
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"As for the influence on my writing,music has definitely influenced how I write. That idea of cadence, repetition, all those elements appear throughout my writing. Drumming has definitely had a huge influence on the way I write, too. Has definitely tuned my ear to rhythm. After I've written something, I'll go through it repeatedly, carefully listening to the construction of the words, seeing, hearing how they flow."
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"If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction."
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"What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold."
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"My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have influence, and they do have companies, and they do have economic relationships that could make life much more difficult in the north. Their balancing act is, "How much worse can we make it in the north without creating that which scares us more than anything, which is a collapse in the north." And then what happens to all those nuclear weapons. So they're going to work very hard to avoid that."
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"I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan."
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"We can influence the future but not see it."
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"If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood."
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"I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves."
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"My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence."
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"Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish."
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"I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me."
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