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It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

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The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

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Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. ↗

— Mary Astell

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One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

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The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken. ↗

— John Barton

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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

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Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come. ↗

— Bernice Weissbourd

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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

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If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

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