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Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw. ↗

— Heinz Guderian

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Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel. ↗

— Fred Barnes

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War remains the decisive human failure. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. ↗

— Marya Mannes

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While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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