#flu

Being a shrinking city and a quintessential modern site in flux, Detroit is a testing ground for experimentation and rethinking. ↗

— Luis A. Croquer

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Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. ↗

— W.S. Merwin

#loneliness #loss #poetry #influence

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations. ↗

— Beatrix Potter

#influence #personality #influence

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#temperament #vegetarianism #influence

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#public-opinion #influence

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#paraphrased #influence

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#father #had #influence #lunatic #me

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#influence

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. ↗

— Paxton Hood

#choosing #reading #reading-books #influence

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you. ↗

— Rick Warren

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