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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
One's perception of themselves has a much bigger role than has been acknowledged to determine who succeeds and who does not.
Let the market, not politicians, determine the flow of rice, oil and other commodities. Lower, more stable prices will ensue.
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
If we as a party are serious about devolution, then we must respect councils and nations enough to determine their own agenda.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
People are always going to talk down or bad about you. You can't let that stuff determine what kind of player I am going to be.
If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I’d choose to have?
Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.
Some people are lucky enough to borrow money from their parents, but that shouldn't determine whether you can pursue your dreams.
Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.
The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later.
For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.
We have to have a good look at the Constitution. Let's determine where the shortcomings are. Then we can start talking of clauses.
For a nation, the choices that determine whether income doubles in one generation or two dwarf all other economic policy concerns.
Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That's not fair. It's not American.
Don't let form become more important than the substance of your heart and mind. Don't let commerce determine what you do exclusively.
In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation?
I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that is hungry for lies.
Your attitude determines your altitude. It really is true that If you think you can, you can; and if you think you can’t – you’re right.
School grades can help determine how well a principal or school leader is doing, and yeah, you need to have some way to evaluate schools.
Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.
Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not determine anything.
Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.
My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.
'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
It is not my responsibility to determine whether Mr. Kavanaugh deserves to sit on the Supreme Court. My responsibility is to tell the truth.
Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical.
Public discussion of how we determine al Qaeda intentions, I just - I can't see how that can do anything but harm the security of the nation.
Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.
There is no sign saying 'good Muslim' or 'bad Muslim.' How many lives will be lost or destroyed trying to determine who is good or who is bad?
Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.
I wonder if some artists determine their entire identity through that which they create. How dangerous! Imagine if they were to stop creating!
Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.
It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.
George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.
I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.
We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.
The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future.
In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.
Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.