"You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself."
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"We should never let our experience influence what we think about our potential."
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"I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence."
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"The books that influence the world are those that it has not read."
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"There is no influence like the influence of habit."
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"'No' puts distance between you and the wrong influence."
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"Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain."
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"As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families."
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"I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones who are bringing a lot of very, you know, problematic ideas about sexuality and gender into psychiatric and psychological settings. And I like having some influence there."
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"The influence of a vital being vitalizes."
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"I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower."
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"If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life."
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"The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion."
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"We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled."
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"... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence."
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"If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence."
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"The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command."
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"It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no."
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"The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached."
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"My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none."
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