#determined

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#bring #brings #determined #happens #how

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best. ↗

— Chris Evert

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My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. ↗

— Richard Branson

#car #determined #few #fields #find

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself. ↗

— Dee Brown

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I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

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What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around? ↗

— Elizabeth Bishop

#bodies #breath #determined #life #other

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life. ↗

— George Eliot

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