#determined

Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. ↗

— Junius

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The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more. ↗

— Akhmad Kadyrov

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Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being. ↗

— Dale Turner

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All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots. ↗

— Margaret Weis

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'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and the constitution of proteins, which are regarded as the principal con-stituents of living organisms. ↗

— Karl Landsteiner

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I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. ↗

— Chris Cleave

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The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

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