#influence

I have more influence now than when I had the power. ↗

— Gough Whitlam

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? ↗

— Marguerite Young

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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

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I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment. ↗

— Robin Gibb

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The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre. ↗

— Robin Gibb

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Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. ↗

— William Godwin

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