#deter

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. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#determine #future #i #i am #i think

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#get #happenstance #helped #how #life

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me. ↗

— Karen Carpenter

#determined #easier #enjoy #enough #enough people

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#alternatives #before #best #conservatives #determine

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan. ↗

— Bob Filner

#beijing #chinese #chinese government #coming #cross

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#around #because #book #case #could

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#determine #diminish #fears #ideas #make

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#find #first #objective #position #whatever

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#consists #define #determine #how #information

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. ↗

— John Locke

#cases #determine #human #human society #love