"When you see all of these bands citing you as influences, it makes you feel relevant"
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"Resign yourself to the influence of the earth."
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"Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next."
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"My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden."
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"Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence."
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"We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised."
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"Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion."
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"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being."
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"America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences."
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"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."
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"Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced."
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"I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving."
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"We wear our names heavily. And though we have tried to escape their influence, they have seeped into us, and we find ourselves living their patterns again and again."
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"Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences."
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"There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation."
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"Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie."
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"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?"
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"Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world."
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"It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free."
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"true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend"
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