#flu

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#closed #closed system #cosmic #effects #example

My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every day that happiness comes from within and not from something outside of your heart. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#biggest #comes #day #every #every day

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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It's hard to say if the NBA is hurt by the influx of younger players, but it's definitely impacted the league. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#hard #hurt #impacted #influx #league

A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life. ↗

— Mena Suvari

#ago #asked #does #genuinely #i

The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#civic #development #economic #economic life #fact

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church. ↗

— Charles King

#change #church #got #honestly #hymn

We influence singing but never really songwriting. ↗

— Charles King

#never #really #singing #songwriting

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#correct #flunked #high #high school #i

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#drive #enough #got #guardian #i