"Influence is not government."
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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
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"Never mistake the power of influence"
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"We were meant to influence the world, not have the world influence us."
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"Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations."
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"The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God."
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"Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it."
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"There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth."
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"To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work."
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"I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor."
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"A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence."
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"Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind"
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"Food is the most important influence on your health. It is even more important than your thoughts and emotions."
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"Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up."
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"By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life."
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"The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock."
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"I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence."
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"[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him."
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"If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church"
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"Mantovani was a great influence on me."
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