#determine

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined. ↗

— Julian Cope

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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable. ↗

— Jim Loehr

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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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