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There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

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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

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

— Beatrix Potter

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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

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

— Allen Ginsberg

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Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

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

— Spike Milligan

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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

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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

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