#determining

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system. ↗

— Steven Chu

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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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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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In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics. ↗

— George Stigler

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If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#being #determining #earth #heavenly #him

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#common #determining #each #earth #east

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online. ↗

— John Doolittle

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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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