#determining

Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course. ↗

— Alex Trebek

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The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we're not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families. ↗

— J. C. Watts

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In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America. ↗

— Toby Young

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The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things. ↗

— William Ames

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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

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The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

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Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques. ↗

— Robert Mueller

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Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

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But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line? ↗

— Diana Nyad

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